[XFRM]: Probe selected algorithm only.
This patch removes an annoying problem in xfrm_user. As it is every time an SA is added it probes every known algorithm in the universe. Now if they all existed it would be OK. However, for the ones which don't actually exist this causes multiple /sbin/modprobe processes to be spawned which slows the system down when you're adding hundreds of SAs. Since we know the type of algorithm required when we're adding a new SA, we can get away with only probing the selected algorithms. This is what the following patch does for xfrm_user. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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