Re: cipher implementations allowed to sleep?
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2016-03-31 12:58:30
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:47:50PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
Considering the implementation in ansi_cprng.c, is it allowed to use spin_lock_bh with the sync operations assuming that a cipher implementation may sleep?
As I said, it's only allowed to sleep if you set the MAY_SLEEP flag. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt