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Message-ID: <20170610214319.GA20743@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:43:20 -0300
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ccree: use constant time memory comparison for macs
 and tags

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> That's fine. As I mentioned, I really have no clue what this code's
> trying to do. If this is just part of some test that doesn't deal with
> actual messages that could be forged, then of course there's nothing
> that needs to be done and this can be NAKd.

Well, it is *testing* things, so you might want to use whatever the
module(s) will actually use.  Maybe test with both?

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh

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