From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 23:58:51 +0100 > I don't know, but this seems to go completely against Linus' no > userspace regressions, which seems to be an absolute requirement of > all kernel development... Linus flames people for arguing against > that rule! Reading the explanation for the change given to you, it's impossible for some hash algorithms to function properly without being given the key first, and would crash. Therefore the requirement is reasonable, even though it is unfortunate that a critical piece of userspace infrastructure was coded this way. -- 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
