Re: [patch v3] pcrypt: handle crypto_get_attr_type() errors

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:28:45PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I was concerned about the error handling for crypto_get_attr_type() in
> pcrypt_alloc_aead().  Steffen Klassert pointed out that we could simply
> avoid calling crypto_get_attr_type() if we passed the type and mask as a
> parameters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot!

> ---
> All three versions have basically been the same except for style issues.
> I will confess that this (hopefully final :P) version looks much nicer 
> than the earlier ones.
> 

It's not only style issues. We also got some additional benefit from
this version. We got rid of a superfluous call to crypto_get_attr_type
and we are able to change type and mask before we pass it to
pcrypt_alloc_aead if this becomes necessary.

Steffen
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