linux-kernel - Re: ahash alg that does not implement import/export failed to register

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Message-ID: <20151219023308.GA27731@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:33:08 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"; linux-crypto" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	"megha.dey" <megha.dey@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ahash alg that does not implement import/export failed to
 register

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 05:31:34PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> Herbert,
> 
> There are some ahash algorithms like x86's sha1-mb and
> ghash that failed to register because of the newly added
> check of non-zero statesize from commit 8996eafd.  But
> since there are algorithms that do not implement an import or
> export, there is no state required for them.  Wonder if the check
> should be modified to something like:

No import and export are required by algif_hash so they must be
implemented.

Cheers,
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