Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] crypto: sha256 - Merge 2 separate C implementations into 1, put into separate library

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On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 04:24:28PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Here is v2 of my patch series refactoring the current 2 separate SHA256
> C implementations into 1 and put it into a separate library.
> 
> There are 3 reasons for this:
> 
> 1) Remove the code duplication of having 2 separate implementations
> 
> 2) Offer a separate library SHA256 implementation which can be used
> without having to call crypto_alloc_shash first. This is especially
> useful for use during early boot when crypto_alloc_shash does not
> work yet.
> 
> 3) Having the purgatory code using the same code as the crypto subsys means
> that the purgratory code will be tested by the crypto subsys selftests.
> 
> This has been tested on x86, including checking that kecec still works.
> 
> This has NOT been tested on s390, if someone with access to s390 can
> test that things still build with this series applied and that
> kexec still works, that would be great.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Use put_unaligned_be32 to store the hash to allow callers to use an
>   unaligned buffer for storing the hash
> - Add a comment to include/crypto/sha256.h explaining that these functions
>   now may be used outside of the purgatory too (and that using the crypto
>   API instead is preferred)
> - Add sha224 support to the lib/crypto/sha256 library code
> - Make crypto/sha256_generic.c not only use sha256_transform from
>   lib/crypto/sha256.c but also switch it to using sha256_init, sha256_update
>   and sha256_final from there so that the crypto subsys selftests fully test
>   the lib/crypto/sha256.c implementation

All applied.  Thanks.
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