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From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: catch base cipher self-test failures in fips mode
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:34:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904290934.32404.jarod@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090429132646.GA17481@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 09:26:46 Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:18:37AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 09:15:07 Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:11:51PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > +notest:
> > > > +	printk(KERN_INFO "alg: No test for %s (%s)\n", alg, driver);
> > > 
> > > Can notest ever get here with rc != 0?
> > 
> > Nope.
> 
> So why do we need to move it?

Oh. Hrm. Upon looking a bit harder at it, I think the only reason
would be if we wanted to print out a message claiming success in
testing ctr(aes).

There's also a devious ulterior motive for this patch, which is
to make the cryptodev tree look identical(er) to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.x kernel tree w/in alg_test()...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29  1:11 [PATCH] crypto: catch base cipher self-test failures in fips mode Jarod Wilson
2009-04-29 10:36 ` Neil Horman
2009-04-29 12:38   ` Jarod Wilson
2009-04-29 13:15 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-29 13:18   ` Jarod Wilson
2009-04-29 13:26     ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-29 13:34       ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2009-04-30 20:21         ` [PATCH v2] " Jarod Wilson
2009-05-04 11:49           ` Herbert Xu

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