Hi Herbert, >-----Original Message----- >From: Herbert Xu [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:07 PM >To: Zhang, Sonic >Cc: Milan Broz; [email protected] >Subject: Re: Tcrypt hmac(crc32) test can work only on Blackfin > >On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 03:38:45AM -0500, Zhang, Sonic wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:01:49PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote: >> >> >> >> On 11/21/2012 12:29 PM, Zhang, Sonic wrote: >> >> > Is there a policy that the CRC test vector in testmgr.h should >> >> > support all CRC drivers? >> >> > If so, I am fine to drop this test vector. >> >> >> >> Question for Herbert... >> >> But the problem I see is that it confuses people, it simply returns >> >> fail everytime (except Blackfin platform). >> >> >> >> My mail originates from bug report "tcrypt tests started failing", >> >> and it was not obvious why (for people not familiar with tcrypt >> >> internals, they just tried all test modes available). >> > >> >We should just make a generic version of crc32 available. >> > >> >> Hi Herbert and Broz, >> >> Unfortunately, after investigating the hardware manual of Blackfin CRC engine >and the CRC algorithm, I have to say the Blackfin CRC driver can't use current >crc32c test vector in testmgr.h. Blackfin CRC engine only supports big endian >CRC algorithm, while current crypto crc32c driver uses little endian CRC >algorithm. The big endian CRC digest is different from that of the little >endian. >> >> There are 2 solutions. One is to add a big endian crc32c test vector. The >> other >is to keep the Blackfin specific test vector. However, neither meets Broz's >expectation of a generic crc32 test vector. >> >> Any idea? > >I think we should just remove the blackfin crc driver altogether as nothing in >the >kernel ever uses hmac(crc32). >
Blackfin Linux applications may use the crypto bfin_crc driver. I wish you could remove the blackfin crc test patch from testmgr, while keeping the driver as it is. Thanks, Sonic >Cheers, >-- >Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: >http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ >PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
