From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
<quentin.gouchet@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
ABI/API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: crypto: user - Allow get request with empty driver name
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:04:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141120080406.GV6390@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141120074526.GB29544@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:45:26PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> >
> > I think this is not sufficient, crypto_alg_match() will now return the first
> > algorithm in crypto_alg_list that matches cra_name. We would need to extend
> > crypto_alg_match() to return the algorithm with the highest priority in that
> > case.
>
> It doesn't really matter because all implementations must provide
> exactly the same set of parameters for a given algorithm so it's
> good enough for what Stephan wants to do.
Ok, I see.
> But yes an interface to grab the highest priority algorithm would
> be useful too so patches are welcome :)
Should be not too hard to return the highest priority algorithm
instead of the first match with the existing interface, I'll see
what I can do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-20 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-16 2:23 [PATCH v2 00/10] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD and RNG support Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] crypto: AF_ALG: add user space interface for AEAD Stephan Mueller
2014-11-18 14:06 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-19 0:34 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-19 4:20 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-19 4:27 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-19 6:30 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-19 6:45 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-16 2:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: AF_ALG: user space interface for cipher info Stephan Mueller
2014-11-18 14:08 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-19 1:02 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-19 1:05 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 4:03 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 4:07 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 4:14 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 4:18 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 4:23 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 4:46 ` crypto: user - Allow get request with empty driver name Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 7:11 ` Steffen Klassert
2014-11-20 7:45 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 8:04 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2014-11-20 13:07 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 13:02 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 13:10 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 13:40 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-20 16:08 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-21 2:31 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-21 2:42 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-21 4:40 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-20 6:32 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: AF_ALG: user space interface for cipher info Steffen Klassert
2014-11-20 7:05 ` Steffen Klassert
2014-11-16 2:25 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] crypto: AF_ALG: extend data structuers for AEAD Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:25 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto: AF_ALG: crypto API calls to inline functions Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] crypto: AF_ALG: add AEAD support Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] crypto: AF_ALG: make setkey optional Stephan Mueller
2014-11-18 14:10 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-19 2:36 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:27 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] crypto: AF_ALG: add random number generator support Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] crypto: AF_ALG: enable RNG interface compilation Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] crypto: AF_ALG: user space interface for hash info Stephan Mueller
2014-11-16 2:29 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] crypto: AF_ALG: document the user space interface Stephan Mueller
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