Re: cipher implementations allowed to sleep?

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:47:50PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> Considering the implementation in ansi_cprng.c, is it allowed to use 
> spin_lock_bh with the sync operations assuming that a cipher implementation 
> may sleep?

As I said, it's only allowed to sleep if you set the MAY_SLEEP
flag.

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