[PATCH 0/6] crypto: arm64 - big endian fixes

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Oct 11 04:01:56 PDT 2016


On 11 October 2016 at 03:12, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:26:00PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> /* This piece of crap needs to disappear into per-type test hooks. */
>> if (!((type ^ CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER) &
>>      CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER_MASK) && !(type & CRYPTO_ALG_GENIV) &&
>>    ((alg->cra_flags & CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_MASK) ==
>>     CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_BLKCIPHER ? alg->cra_blkcipher.ivsize :
>> alg->cra_ablkcipher.ivsize))
>> type |= CRYPTO_ALG_TESTED;
>>
>> This causes cbc(aes), ctr(aes) and xts(aes) to remain untested, unless
>> I add CRYPTO_ALG_GENIV to their cra_flags. Is this expected behavior?
>> What would be your recommended way to ensure these algos are covered
>> by the boottime tests?
>
> This is a leftover from the old blkcipher/ablkcipher interface.
> I've got a patch pending which will remove this if clause.
>

OK, thanks.

So I will follow up with a v2 of this series with two additional fixes.



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