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

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Herbert Xu wrote:

> 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.

There is no hard reason for that. CRYPTO_NOLOAD is a "virtual" flag that 
could be only present in crypto algorithm requests and I thought that the 
intention was that the virtual flags go after real flags. If you don't 
want to change existing flags, there is no problem with that.

Mikulas

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