Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2018-07-25

Re: [PATCH v6 13/18] wireless/lib80211: Convert from ahash to shash

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2018-07-25 07:26:55
Also in: dm-devel, linux-crypto, linux-pm, linux-wireless, lkml, netdev

On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 09:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of
the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash
to direct shash. By removing a layer of indirection this both improves
performance and reduces stack usage. The stack allocation will be made
a fixed size in a later patch to the crypto subsystem.
I think you sent this before - it should be in net-next now.

johannes
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