On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 04:54:44AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > How would the fail manifest itself? If algif_aead would be present, user > space could use the __driver implementation regardless of a setkey or > authsize callback by simply calling encrypt/decrypt. Would the error be > limited to that caller only? For user-space it'll never fail. However, for kernel users such as IPsec it'll fail if the interrupt occurs while in a thread that's already using the FPU. But you're right, we probably shouldn't allow these algorithms to be directly exported to user-space at all, even when they do possess a setkey function. In fact, we should ban them from other places where they might be used too, such as through IPsec. I'll try to write something up to do this Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <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