Eric Biggers <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> > > Currently, by default crypto self-test failures only result in a > pr_warn() message and an "unknown" status in /proc/crypto. Both of > these are easy to miss. There is also an option to panic the kernel > when a test fails, but that can't be the default behavior. > > A crypto self-test failure always indicates a kernel bug, however, and > there's already a standard way to report (recoverable) kernel bugs -- > the WARN() family of macros. WARNs are noisier and harder to miss, and > existing test systems already know to look for them in dmesg or via > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. > > Therefore, call WARN() when an algorithm fails its self-tests. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> > --- > crypto/testmgr.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
