Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] crypto: drbg - add async seeding operation

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 08:10:13AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> The cancel operation is needed as otherwise my drbg context handle will be 
> removed by the crypto API during the sleep. That is the whole reason why 
> wait_event_interruptible is used.
> 
> So, even when using an uninterruptible sleep, the crypto API has no knowledge 
> about it and I have to serialize the destruction code path with the async 
> callback.

I understand.  But if you use the uniterruptible version at least
you won't have to deal with bogus early returns.

The cancel by itself will *not* cause wait_event_interruptible
to return early.  Somebody has to send it a signal for that to
happen.

Cheers,
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