Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:06:01 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: crypto: user - crypto_alg_match removal |
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:42:25AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > Well, I think there is a small but important difference. If a user > requests a driver name that would match an algorithm name (i.e. cbc(aes) > instead of cbc(aes-asm)) crypto_alg_lookup() returns the algorithm with > the highest priority instead of telling that we don't have a driver with > the name cbc(aes).
Does this matter though? The current user interface is only used to query specific driver names which should never be equal to an algorithm name. So doing so already invokes undefined behaviour.
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