linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: tests: Fix syntax error for old python versions

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Message-ID: <20260107034341.GB2283@sol>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 19:43:41 -0800
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@...ilicon.com>
Cc: ardb@...nel.org, dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxarm@...wei.com, jonathan.cameron@...wei.com,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: tests: Fix syntax error for old python
 versions

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 07:30:19PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 09:58:29AM +0800, Jie Zhan wrote:
> > 'make binrpm-pkg' throws me this error, with Python 3.9:
> > 
> > *** Error compiling '.../gen-hash-testvecs.py'...
> >   File ".../scripts/crypto/gen-hash-testvecs.py", line 121
> >     return f'{alg.upper().replace('-', '_')}_DIGEST_SIZE'
> >                                    ^
> > SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched '('
> > 
> > Old python versions, presumably <= 3.11, can't resolve these quotes.
> > 
> > Fix it with double quotes for compatibility.
> > 
> > Fixes: 15c64c47e484 ("lib/crypto: tests: Add SHA3 kunit tests")
> > Signed-off-by: Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@...ilicon.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/crypto/gen-hash-testvecs.py | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> I'll apply this, but it's weird that 'make binrpm-pkg' is doing anything
> with this script.  It's not executed during the kernel build process.
> It's only run manually to generate some files that are checked in
> elsewhere in the tree.
> 
> - Eric

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-fixes

- Eric