From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: jmorris@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: Bug somewhere in crypto or ipsec stuff
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:41:24 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031030.124124.26191552.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0310292221320.23405-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
In article <Xine.LNX.4.44.0310292221320.23405-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com> (at Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:22:50 -0500 (EST)), James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> says:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] ^[$B5HF#1QL@^[(B wrote:
>
>
> > I would just disallow name == NULL,
> > well, what algorithm do you expect?
>
> Good question. It seems to me to be a bug in the calling code if it is
> trying to look up nothing -- I'd rather not paper that over.
Do you mean that we need to fix the caller?
Well, people may want to get just any algorithm.
In such case,
- crypto allows name == NULL, and return any algorithm
(for example, an algorithm that we see first.)
- caller may filter name == NULL case if it is ambiguous in their context.
--yoshfuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-30 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-30 2:29 Paul Mackerras
2003-10-30 3:17 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-10-30 3:22 ` James Morris
2003-10-30 3:41 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
2003-10-30 4:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-30 4:47 ` James Morris
2003-10-30 5:24 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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