linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] lib/crypto: blake2s: include as built-in

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9quP2W3WQzM1ZRSMPiinD=2bz3sxFv2mOFYT9U-+aPhLA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jan 2022 18:04:34 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] lib/crypto: blake2s: include as built-in

Hi Ard,

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:03 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:
> The only downside here is that the ARM/x86 accelerated shashes and the
> generic shash now use the same core transform, right? Given that the
> generic blake2s shash is never used for anything in the kernel, the
> only reason for its existence was to be able to use the randomized
> crypto testing infrastructure to test the arch code.
>
> Ergo, there is no point in retaining the blake2s shashes and we can
> simply remove all of them. (Note that blake2b is used as an shash via
> the crypto API by btrfs, but blake2s is only used via the library API)

That makes sense and is fine with me. Let's do that in a separate
commit later. I've got a bunch of things I'd like to fix up in the
general lib/crypto vs crypto split that are kind of interrelated.

Jason