Re: crypto: user - crypto_alg_match removal

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Nov 25 2014 - 04:06:18 EST


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:42:25AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> Well, I think there is a small but important difference. If a user
> requests a driver name that would match an algorithm name (i.e. cbc(aes)
> instead of cbc(aes-asm)) crypto_alg_lookup() returns the algorithm with
> the highest priority instead of telling that we don't have a driver with
> the name cbc(aes).

Does this matter though? The current user interface is only used to
query specific driver names which should never be equal to an
algorithm name. So doing so already invokes undefined behaviour.

Cheers,
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