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CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK is handled inconsistently. When it's requested to be clear, some templates propagate that request to child algorithms, while others don't. It's apparently desired for NEED_FALLBACK to be propagated, to avoid deadlocks where a module tries to load itself while it's being initialized, and to avoid unnecessarily complex fallback chains where we have e.g. cbc-aes-$driver falling back to cbc(aes-$driver) where aes-$driver itself falls back to aes-generic, instead of cbc-aes-$driver simply falling back to cbc(aes-generic). There have been a number of fixes to this effect: commit89027579bc("crypto: xts - Propagate NEED_FALLBACK bit") commitd2c2a85cfe("crypto: ctr - Propagate NEED_FALLBACK bit") commite6c2e65c70("crypto: cbc - Propagate NEED_FALLBACK bit") But it seems that other templates can have the same problems too. To avoid this whack-a-mole, just add NEED_FALLBACK to INHERITED_FLAGS so that it's always inherited. 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.