linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] crypto: AF

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Message-ID: <20141118141013.GC12100@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:10:13 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, quentin.gouchet@...il.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, ABI/API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] crypto: AF_ALG: make setkey optional

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:26:58AM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> The current AF_ALG implementation requires that a userspace interface
> implementation must provide a callback for setkey. Such a call is not
> appliable to random number generators.
> 
> To prepare AF_ALG for the addition of a random number generator user
> space interface, this function callback invocation is made optional.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>

Did you actually try this? AFAICS setkey is already optional.

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