Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: fix crypto_alloc_{tfm,base}() return value
From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 07:55:34 EST
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:14:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Actually, crypto_alloc_tfm is an obsolete function which is supposed
> to maintain its previous semantics of returning NULL or success.
I misunderstood about crypto_alloc_tfm().
BTW, ecryptfs and reiser4 are still using crypto_alloc_tfm().
Should we mark it as __deprecated?
> I don't quite see where the problem with crypto_alloc_base is.
- __crypto_alloc_tfm() should return -ENOMEM on kzalloc() failure.
But it returns NULL.
- crypto_alloc_base() may not return -EINTR on signal_pending()
I'll fix the patch and resend with more clear description later.
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