Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver
Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:22:41 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-arm-msm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <20260728152241.GA4281@quark> |
On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 08:51:44AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > It is consuming a lot of the community's time to help maintain, > including dealing with LLM-found bugs, with no clear benefit to anyone. > Even considering *just today* we can see someone sent a bug fix: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/ Another example: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/ > It definitely *was* causing problems before it was disabled via the > crypto priority system (which made it unused in the kernel) and dropped > it from AF_ALG (which removed most of the unprivileged attack surface). > When anyone accidentally used it, it caused at least a huge performance > problem, and sometimes other problems too like filesystem hangs. It was > an issue for years. This actually seems to have been an overly-optimistic characterization! As per https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/ this driver drains the battery on every system with the module loaded, even when no crypto requests are actually sent to it. - Eric