On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:

quoted

The crypto functions should be safe to use in softirq context.

It should be, but:
<crypto/api.c:121>
struct crypto_tfm *crypto_alloc_tfm(const char *name, u32 flags)
{
        struct crypto_tfm *tfm = NULL;
        struct crypto_alg *alg;

        alg = crypto_alg_mod_lookup(name);
        if (alg == NULL)
                goto out;

        tfm = kmalloc(sizeof(*tfm) + alg->cra_ctxsize, GFP_KERNEL);

By crypto functions I meant encrypt() decrypt() etc, not the allocation.


- James
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