[PATCH 5/6] [RFC] crypto/testmgr: add null test for 842 algorithm

Stephan Mueller smueller at chronox.de
Fri Jul 3 16:26:46 AEST 2015


Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2015, 15:41:19 schrieb Nishanth Aravamudan:

Hi Nishanth,

>Currently, when the nx-842-pseries driver loads, the following message
>is emitted:
>
>alg: No test for 842 (842-nx)
>
>It seems like the simplest way to fix this message (other than adding a
>proper test) is to just insert the null test into the list in the
>testmgr.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
>---
> crypto/testmgr.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/crypto/testmgr.c b/crypto/testmgr.c
>index d0a42bd3aae9..ff0f76e0d0b4 100644
>--- a/crypto/testmgr.c
>+++ b/crypto/testmgr.c
>@@ -1982,6 +1982,9 @@ static int alg_test_null(const struct alg_test_desc
>*desc, /* Please keep this list sorted by algorithm name. */
> static const struct alg_test_desc alg_test_descs[] = {
> 	{
>+		.alg = "842",
>+		.test = alg_test_null,
>+	}, {
> 		.alg = "__cbc-cast5-avx",
> 		.test = alg_test_null,

As this is a compression algo, it is safe to add fips_allowed = 1 here as 
otherwise the algo is not available in fips=1

> 	}, {


Ciao
Stephan


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