Running self-tests for a short-lived KVM VM takes 28ms on my laptop. This commit adds a flag 'cryptomgr.notests' which allows them to be disabled. However if fips=1 as well, we ignore this flag as FIPS mode mandates that the self-tests are run. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++ crypto/testmgr.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 0b3de80..d4d5fb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -826,6 +826,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used or memory reserved is below 4G. + cryptomgr.notests + [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests + cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] Format: <dma> diff --git a/crypto/testmgr.c b/crypto/testmgr.c index b86883a..fcd89fe 100644 --- a/crypto/testmgr.c +++ b/crypto/testmgr.c @@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ #include "internal.h" +static bool notests; +module_param(notests, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(notests, "disable crypto self-tests"); + #ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS /* a perfect nop */ @@ -3868,6 +3872,11 @@ int alg_test(const char *driver, const char *alg, u32 type, u32 mask) int j; int rc; + if (!fips_enabled && notests) { + printk_once(KERN_INFO "alg: self-tests disabled\n"); + return 0; + } + alg_test_descs_check_order(); if ((type & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) == CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER) { -- 2.7.4 -- 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