netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

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Message-ID: <20081103010431.GA29905@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:04:31 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ESP SA loading (by default)

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:16:43AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> Keep in mind that the only error message is "line N: returned (null)"
> from setkey(8) or something like that and no SA created.
> 
> It took me full printk session to realize what's going on.

As our error passing really sucks, I'm happy to accept a patch
to crypto_alloc_tfm which prints out a message if it fails.

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