2018-04-08 11:22 GMT+02:00 Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 11:07:12AM +0200, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote: >> >> > This check should be done when the algorithm is registered. Perhaps >> > crypto_check_alg. >> >> Please correct me if I'm wrong: >> isn't crypto_check_alg invoked also during hashing algorithm registration? >> In this patch-set I'm dealing only with ciphers, because the maximum >> block size (16) >> is relatively small and it's also the most common block size with >> ciphers (maybe I should >> have explicitly referenced ciphers in the macro names, my bad). >> I don't think that it would be OK to use a similar approach for hashes >> too, because some >> of them have block size >= 1024 bytes. > > Yes we want to make it for ciphers only even if we move it to > crypto_check_alg. > > For a legacy type like cipher cou can do it by > > if (!alg->cra_type && (alg->cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) == > CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_CIPHER) > do_cipher_specific_check(); > Thank you very much for your help. I'm sending the new version. Salvatore
