Re: [PATCH] lib/crypto: tests: polyval_kunit: Increase iterations for preparekey in IRQs

From: Thomas Weißschuh

Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 03:21:47 EST


On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 10:27:48AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 08:32:03AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > On my development machine the generic, memcpy()-only implementation of
> > polyval_preparekey() is too fast for the IRQ workers to actually fire.
> > The test fails.
> >
> > Increase the iterations to make the test more robust.
> > The test will run for a maximum of one second in any case.
> >
> > Fixes: b3aed551b3fc ("lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for POLYVAL")
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Glad to see that people are running these tests! I actually already
> applied
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20251219085259.1163048-1-davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx/
> for this issue, which should be sufficient by itself.

That works, too. Thanks!

> Might be worth
> increasing the iteration count as well, but I'd like to check whether
> any other tests could use a similar change as well.

No other one of the default tests failed for me in a similar way.


Thomas