[New-bugs-announce] [issue29324] test_aead_aes_gcm fails on Kernel 4.9

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes:

$ ./python -m test -m test_aead_aes_gcm test_socket
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 [1/1] test_socket
test test_socket failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/heimes/dev/python/cpython/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 556, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kw)
  File "/home/heimes/dev/python/cpython/Lib/test/test_socket.py", line 5515, in test_aead_aes_gcm
    res = op.recv(assoclen + len(plain) + taglen)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

The tests were written and passed under Linux Kernel 4.7. I was under the assumption that the API is stable. But the most recent version 4.9 has changed the API for AEAD mode slightly. libkcapi project maintain a well written documentation of the Kernel crypto API,
https://github.com/smuellerDD/libkcapi/commit/be242c387b7030cbccae2c183107efa86d9a3cd6

Fedora 24 and 25 are affected. I'm going to update the tests. Downstream distributors: Feel free to disable the test in the mean time. The feature is not critical.

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assignee: christian.heimes
components: Extension Modules
messages: 285794
nosy: christian.heimes
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_aead_aes_gcm fails on Kernel 4.9
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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