Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] use crc32 instead of md5 for hibernation e820 integrity check

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Apr 13 2021 - 16:28:11 EST


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:13:30PM -0400, Chris von Recklinghausen wrote:
> Suspend fails on a system in fips mode because md5 is used for the e820

Suspend to disk (hibernation), or any suspend?

> struct restore_data_record {
> unsigned long jump_address;
> unsigned long jump_address_phys;
> unsigned long cr3;
> unsigned long magic;
> - u8 e820_digest[MD5_DIGEST_SIZE];
> + unsigned long e820_digest;
> };

This field should probably be renamed to 'e820_crc' or 'e820_checksum', since
"digest" normally means a cryptographic digest.

- Eric