Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: fix crypto_alloc_{tfm,base}() return value

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:55:26PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 
> I misunderstood about crypto_alloc_tfm().
> 
> BTW, ecryptfs and reiser4 are still using crypto_alloc_tfm().
> Should we mark it as __deprecated?

Probably.  Although anybody using crypto_alloc_tfm will probably
also use the old crypto interface which gives plenty of warnings
already.

> - __crypto_alloc_tfm() should return -ENOMEM on kzalloc() failure.
>   But it returns NULL.
> 
> - crypto_alloc_base() may not return -EINTR on signal_pending()
> 
> I'll fix the patch and resend with more clear description later.

Thanks,
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