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From: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
	<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	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: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 16:30:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABvBcwaV0FdSeEz1ddW3yGwcbOOOVy-3jL32futGrtDWc506vg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4818892.iTQEcLzFEP@tauon.chronox.de>

Hi Stephan,

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 16:10, Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
>
> Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 16:48:02 CEST schrieb Elena Petrova:
>
> Hi Elena,
>
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 08:27, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> wrote:
> > > Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > lock_sock() would solve the former.  I'm not sure what should be done
> > > > about
> > > > rng_recvmsg().  It apparently relies on the crypto_rng doing its own
> > > > locking, but maybe it should just use lock_sock() too.
> > >
> > > The lock_sock is only needed if you're doing testing.  What I'd
> > > prefer is to have a completely different code-path for testing.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Nobody has requested it for now - so why not only compiling it when the DRBG
> test config value is set? If for some reason there is a request to allow
> setting the additional data from user space, we may simply take the ifdef
> away.
>
> My approach is to have only interfaces into the kernel that are truly
> requested and needed.

Ok, makes sense, thanks!

> Ciao
> Stephan
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ 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 [this message]
2020-08-04  2:18                     ` Herbert Xu
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

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