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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 <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.