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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: fix crypto_alloc_{tfm,base}() return value
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:58:12PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> crypto_alloc_tfm() and crypto_alloc_base() are suppose to return error code
> as pointer on failures. But there are some cases where they return NULL
> (for example, crypto_alloc_tfm() returns NULL on kzalloc() failure)
>
> This patch fixes that wrong return value, and also fixes tcrypt so that it can
> detect error code correctly.

Actually, crypto_alloc_tfm is an obsolete function which is supposed
to maintain its previous semantics of returning NULL or success.

I don't quite see where the problem with crypto_alloc_base is.

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