Re: [PATCH] crypto: tstmgr - guard xxhash tests

From: Hamza Mahfooz

Date: Fri Apr 17 2026 - 13:46:12 EST


On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 05:09:10PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On second thought, fips_allowed should not mean that an algorithm
> must be present.
>
> So we should change it such that an -ENOENT is not fatal, or at least
> when it's called from tcrypt.
>

It appears that commit 6318fbe26e67 ("crypto: testmgr - Hide ENOENT
errors better"), already does exactly that and it appears to resolve the
issue that I'm seeing. So, is there any reason it can't be backported to
stable?