Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: pass the flag CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:09:28AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/crypto.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/crypto.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/crypto.h
> @@ -97,9 +97,18 @@
>  #define CRYPTO_ALG_OPTIONAL_KEY		0x00004000
>  
>  /*
> + * The driver may allocate memory during request processing, so it shouldn't be
> + * used in cases where memory allocation failures aren't acceptable, such as
> + * during block device encryption.
> + */
> +#define CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY	0x00008000
> +
> +/*
>   * Don't trigger module loading
>   */
> -#define CRYPTO_NOLOAD			0x00008000
> +#define CRYPTO_NOLOAD			0x00010000
> +
> +#define CRYPTO_ALG_INHERITED_FLAGS	(CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC | CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY)

Any reason why you need to renumber NOLOAD? If not please keep
the existing values.

Thanks,
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