Hi Herbert, you sent a backport of 6de62f15b581f920ade22d758f4c338311c2f0d4 to be included in the 3.12 branch (as b2a0707817d3dec83652bb460a7775613058ae), but this leaves af_alg broken for unkeyed hash functions: f382cd5ac26674877143fa7d9c0ea23c6640e706 (3.12 just before your commit) : socket(PF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_ALG, sa_data="hash\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 88) = 0 accept(3, 0, NULL) = 4 write(4, "abc", 3) = 3 read(4, "\220\1P\230<\322O\260\326\226?}(\341\177r", 16) = 16 and with b2a0707817d3dec83652bb460a7775613058ae applied: socket(PF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_ALG, sa_data="hash\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 88) = 0 accept(3, 0, NULL) = 4 write(4, "abc", 3) = -1 ENOKEY (Required key not available) read(4, 0x7ffebeba0e30, 16) = -1 ENOKEY (Required key not available) Mainline has meanwhile seen many fixes to this change; can you suggest an elegant and crisp backport for these as well? TIA, Torsten