Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccm - avoid scatterlist for MAC encryption

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 08:50 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

I just realised that patch should probably use
aead_request_alloc/aead_request_free [and drop the memset]. That also
fixes the latent bug where the alignment of the req ctx is not take
into account.

Good point, I'll fix that up.

quoted

quoted

Also, regarding your __percpu patch: those are located in the
vmalloc
area as well, at least on arm64, and likely other architectures
too.

Crap. Any other bright ideas?

kmem_cache_create() and kmem_cache_alloc()

for the aad/b0/j0/etc? Hmm. Yeah I guess we should do those dynamically
as well then.

johannes