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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-10 14:04:16 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-10 14:04:16 -0700 |
commit | 30066ce675d3af350bc5a53858991c0b518dda00 (patch) | |
tree | 75db2274cd0887b11b4e297771287f0fb4c14b81 /Documentation | |
parent | 6763afe4b9f39142bda2a92d69e62fe85f67251c (diff) | |
parent | c3afafa47898e34eb49828ec4ac92bcdc81c8f0c (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 4.9:
API:
- The crypto engine code now supports hashes.
Algorithms:
- Allow keys >= 2048 bits in FIPS mode for RSA.
Drivers:
- Memory overwrite fix for vmx ghash.
- Add support for building ARM sha1-neon in Thumb2 mode.
- Reenable ARM ghash-ce code by adding import/export.
- Reenable img-hash by adding import/export.
- Add support for multiple cores in omap-aes.
- Add little-endian support for sha1-powerpc.
- Add Cavium HWRNG driver for ThunderX SoC"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (137 commits)
crypto: caam - treat SGT address pointer as u64
crypto: ccp - Make syslog errors human-readable
crypto: ccp - clean up data structure
crypto: vmx - Ensure ghash-generic is enabled
crypto: testmgr - add guard to dst buffer for ahash_export
crypto: caam - Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
crypto: sha1-powerpc - little-endian support
crypto: gcm - Fix IV buffer size in crypto_gcm_setkey
crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash
crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file
crypto: caam - fix sg dump
hwrng: omap - Only fail if pm_runtime_get_sync returns < 0
crypto: omap-sham - shrink the internal buffer size
crypto: omap-sham - add support for export/import
crypto: omap-sham - convert driver logic to use sgs for data xmit
crypto: omap-sham - change the DMA threshold value to a define
crypto: omap-sham - add support functions for sg based data handling
crypto: omap-sham - rename sgl to sgl_tmp for deprecation
crypto: omap-sham - align algorithms on word offset
crypto: omap-sham - add context export/import stubs
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl | 38 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl index fb2a1526f6ec..088b79c341ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/crypto-API.tmpl @@ -797,7 +797,8 @@ kernel crypto API | Caller include/linux/crypto.h and their definition can be seen below. The former function registers a single transformation, while the latter works on an array of transformation descriptions. - The latter is useful when registering transformations in bulk. + The latter is useful when registering transformations in bulk, + for example when a driver implements multiple transformations. </para> <programlisting> @@ -822,18 +823,31 @@ kernel crypto API | Caller </para> <para> - The bulk registration / unregistration functions require - that struct crypto_alg is an array of count size. These - functions simply loop over that array and register / - unregister each individual algorithm. If an error occurs, - the loop is terminated at the offending algorithm definition. - That means, the algorithms prior to the offending algorithm - are successfully registered. Note, the caller has no way of - knowing which cipher implementations have successfully - registered. If this is important to know, the caller should - loop through the different implementations using the single - instance *_alg functions for each individual implementation. + The bulk registration/unregistration functions + register/unregister each transformation in the given array of + length count. They handle errors as follows: </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + crypto_register_algs() succeeds if and only if it + successfully registers all the given transformations. If an + error occurs partway through, then it rolls back successful + registrations before returning the error code. Note that if + a driver needs to handle registration errors for individual + transformations, then it will need to use the non-bulk + function crypto_register_alg() instead. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + crypto_unregister_algs() tries to unregister all the given + transformations, continuing on error. It logs errors and + always returns zero. + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </sect1> <sect1><title>Single-Block Symmetric Ciphers [CIPHER]</title> |