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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com>
Cc: "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
	<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] crypto: af_alg - add extra parameters for DRBG interface
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 12:18:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200804021810.GA10584@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABvBcwY-F6Euo2SAY6MKpT0KP7OtyswLhUmShPNPfB0qqL6heQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 03:48:02PM +0100, Elena Petrova wrote:
>
> sendmsg is used for "Additional Data" input, and unlike entropy, it
> could be useful outside of testing. But if you confirm it's not
> useful, then yes, I can decouple the testing parts.

Unless there is someone asking for it then I'd rather not export
it to user-space.

> Depends on the comment above, but otherwise, my only concern is that
> the testing variant of rng_recvmsg would be largely copy-pasted from
> the normal rng_recvmsg, apart from a few lines of lock/release and
> crypto_rng_generate/crypto_rng_get_bytes.

They could certainly share code through the use of functions.

Chers,
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-13 16:48 [PATCH 0/1] crypto: af_alg - add extra parameters for DRBG interface Elena Petrova
2020-07-13 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-13 17:10   ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-16 14:23     ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-16 16:40       ` [PATCH v2] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-20 17:35         ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-21 12:55           ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-21 13:18             ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-28 16:16               ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-20 17:42         ` Stephan Müller
2020-07-22 15:59         ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-28 15:51           ` [PATCH v3] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-28 17:36             ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-29 15:45               ` [PATCH v4] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-29 19:26                 ` Stephan Müller
2020-07-31  7:23                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-03 14:48                   ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-03 15:10                     ` Stephan Mueller
2020-08-03 15:30                       ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-04  2:18                     ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2020-07-13 17:25   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Eric Biggers
2020-07-31  7:26     ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-13 16:00       ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:01         ` [PATCH v4] " Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:04           ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:08             ` [PATCH v5] " Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 19:32               ` Eric Biggers
2020-08-21  4:24                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-08 17:04                   ` [PATCH v6] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-09  4:35                     ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 18:29                       ` [PATCH v7] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-09 21:00                         ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-16 11:07                           ` [PATCH v8] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-18  6:43                             ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-18 15:42                               ` [PATCH v9] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-25  8:16                                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-08 17:23                   ` [PATCH v5] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-08 17:18                 ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-14  5:17 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Stephan Mueller
2020-07-14 15:23   ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-14 15:34     ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-16 14:41       ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-16 14:49         ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-16 14:59           ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-16 14:59             ` Stephan Mueller

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