Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API

From: Stephan Mueller
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 03:14:19 EST


Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2015, 09:32:30 schrieb Herbert Xu:

Hi Herbert,

> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch set adds the AF_ALG user space API to externalize the
> > asymmetric cipher API recently added to the kernel crypto API.
> >
> > The patch set is tested with the user space library of libkcapi [1].
> > Use [1] test/test.sh for a full test run. The test covers the
>
> > following scenarios:
> Thanks Stephan. But I would prefer to defer this til after we have
> completed the conversion of current in-kernel users. This is because
> changing the kernel interface is easy while changing the user-space
> interface is not.

Sure, let us wait.

However, I would suggest that you pull patch 1/5 as this is a bug fix that may
affect even other users.

--
Ciao
Stephan
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