On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 11:31:02AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote: > > It sounds like xxhash should be removed the crypto API entirely. > > There's no user of it, it's not crypto, and doing xxhash through > > the userspace crypto API socket is so stupid that I doubt anyone > > attempted it. > > dm-integrity, which uses crypto_shash and accepts arbitrary hash > algorithm strings from userspace, might be relying on "xxhash64" being > supported in crypto_shash. The integritysetup man page specifically > mentions xxhash64:
Oh, ok. So at least for now we need it, although it would be nice to convert dm-integrity to lib/crypto/ and limit it to the advertised algorithms (including xxhash).
