Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: s390 - Remove des and des3_ede code

[Holger Dengler]

Hi Adrian,

On 09/04/2026 09:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-04-09 at 09:08 +0200, Holger Dengler wrote:
>> On 26/03/2026 21:12, Eric Biggers wrote:
>>> Since DES and Triple DES are obsolete, there is very little point in
>>> maintining architecture-optimized code for them.  Remove it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler <dengler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Wouldn't it actually make sense to keep the old crypto code so we get
> additional coverage for QEMU's emulation of crypto instructions?

For qemu test coverage on s390, I would prefer the libica [1] test cases,
which covers mostly all functions codes of the CPACF instructions.

If you want to use the kernel code for testing in addition, you may stay with
a kernel version before the code removal.

[1] https://github.com/opencryptoki/libica

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