Re: [PATCH 9/9] Disable ccm and ccm4309 in fips mod

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:51:54PM -0200, Leonidas S. Barbosa wrote:
> NX CCM has not support to keys larger than 128 neither our hardware.
> In cases where a system is running in fips mode enabled a tcrypt test will
> crash the system in a kernel panic call.
> This patch disable, for now, CCM's algorithms in fips mode to avoid this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonidas S. Barbosa <leosilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For cases like this you should be using a software fallback rather
than just failing.  See padlock-sha for an example.

Cheers,
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