[dm-devel] Desynchronizing dm-raid1
Mikulas Patocka
mpatocka at redhat.com
Thu May 22 12:32:45 UTC 2008
>> All the ciphers comply, so the bug is only a theroretical issue (but I
>> didn't check assembler versions --- they should be checked by the person
>> who wrote them, assembler is write-only language).
>
> Since every current algorithm sets the flag could you invert
> its sense? Sorry to have to do this to you :)
>
> Thanks,
There may be external modules.
If you don't set the flag when it should be set, nothing happens (just a
slight performance drop), if you set the flag when it shouldn't be set,
you get data corruption. So the safest way is this meaning of flag, so
that not-yet-reviewed algorithms set the flag to 0 and prevent data
corruption.
Mikulas
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