Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On little-endian IXP4xx 3 hardware-assisted algorithms fail (due to > apparently unrelated bug which I will take care of). It seems the kernel > is still using these failing algorithms (my debugging code adds extra > fields to the /proc output): How did you determine that it was still being used? When a kernel user requests for an algorithm the system is supposed to skip anything which failed the self-test. > At this point alg->cra_flags includes CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD (due to failed > test), but larval->alg.cra_flags has only the original flags (0x85). CRYPTO_ALG_DEAD is used to mark algorithms deleted from the system. However, we don't delete algorithms just because they fail the self-test. They remain in the system so you can come back and diagnose the problem. They just aren't used by anyone. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
