linux-kernel - Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

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Message-ID: <20100806011706.GA21657@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:17:06 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and
	cryptomgr problem

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:01:03AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
> but it's not being found by the crypto routines.  By GIT bisection, I note
> that this problem is introduced in the following commit:
> 
> 	commit 0b767f96164b2b27488e3daa722ff16e89d49314
> 	Author: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>
> 	Date:   Thu Jun 3 20:53:43 2010 +1000
> 
> 	crypto: testmgr - add an option to disable cryptoalgos' self-tests

Indeed this changeset is buggy.  It makes cryptomgr return a value
as if it was not loaded.  This triggers the module load.

I'll send you a patch.

Thanks,
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