Re: [PATCH RFC v7 2/3] crypto: rsa: add a new rsa generic implementation

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Jun 16 2015 - 22:37:05 EST


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 07:32:16PM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>
> I thought that -EBADMSG was mainly used for authenticated ciphers in case when verification of auth data fails.
> Since this are input params I thought that -EINVAL would be more appropriate.
> I can change it to -EBADMSG, no problem.
> Herbert, what do you think?

The existing crypto/asymmetric_key errno scheme doesn't really
mesh in with the rest of crypto. So you'll just have to pick one
scheme and stick with it.

I don't really mind either way as long as the error codes are
unique and meaningful.

Cheers,
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