linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] crypto: KEYS: convert public key and digsig asym to the akcipher api

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Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:21:03 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] crypto: KEYS: convert public key and digsig asym to
 the akcipher api

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 06:58:55AM -0800, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> 
> Because the first patch modifies the struct public_key and removes the MPIs from it,
> which the code modified in the second patch still uses. If bisect only takes the first
> then the build will fail on the security/integrity/digsig_asymmetric.c as reported by
> kbuild test robot:

Why not just leave the MPIs in the structure and only remove them
by adding a third patch?

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