Adding linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to CC Link to the 2/2 patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10149203/ On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:45:04AM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > This function returns a string with the currently in-use implementation > of the crc32c algorithm, i.e crc32c-generic (for unoptimised, generic > implementation) or crc32c-intel for the sse optimised version. This > will be used by btrfs. > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/crc32c.h | 1 + > lib/libcrc32c.c | 6 ++++++ > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/crc32c.h b/include/linux/crc32c.h > index 357ae4611a45..bd21af828ff6 100644 > --- a/include/linux/crc32c.h > +++ b/include/linux/crc32c.h > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ > #include <linux/types.h> > > extern u32 crc32c(u32 crc, const void *address, unsigned int length); > +extern const char *crc32c_impl(void); > > /* This macro exists for backwards-compatibility. */ > #define crc32c_le crc32c > diff --git a/lib/libcrc32c.c b/lib/libcrc32c.c > index 9f79547d1b97..eaf71e0e04be 100644 > --- a/lib/libcrc32c.c > +++ b/lib/libcrc32c.c > @@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ static void __exit libcrc32c_mod_fini(void) > crypto_free_shash(tfm); > } > > +const char *crc32c_impl(void) > +{ > + return crypto_tfm_alg_driver_name(crypto_shash_tfm(tfm)); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(crc32c_impl); Crypto maintainers, would it be still possible to squeeze this patch to 4.16? It's quite trivial, but as it is not in a code I maintain I'm not comfortable to add it to my tree (unless I get an ACK). The linked patch depends on that change and would let us get rid of some custom crypto wrappers around crc32c.
