Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 22:10:13 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:26:58AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > The current AF_ALG implementation requires that a userspace interface > > implementation must provide a callback for setkey. Such a call is not > > appliable to random number generators. > > > > To prepare AF_ALG for the addition of a random number generator user > > space interface, this function callback invocation is made optional. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Did you actually try this? AFAICS setkey is already optional. You are correct. I tested the kernel without my patch and the setkey on the RNG handle is rejected. I now also see the check already present in the alg_setkey function. This patch will be removed from a new patchset. > > Cheers, -- Ciao Stephan -- 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
