Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 3 authors, 2016-07-04

Re: [PATCHv2 06/27] crypto: ahash: increase the maximum allowed statesize

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2016-07-04 09:19:58
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-omap

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:17:02PM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
I need some clarification on this, afaik request_alloc related
functionality only works per-request basis. The export / import
functionality however is supposed to work across multiple requests.
The test code for example does this:
Why are you trying to allocate memory in export/import at all?
The preferred approach is to unconditionally allocate the memory
in ahash_request_alloc.

Cheers,
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