Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:23:09 +1100 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] Add routine for generating an ID for kernel pointer |
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 08:24:53PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Probably I've had to crypto_alloc_hash earlier and simply keep a reference > to algo but since I'm not sure if looking for modules in late-init-call > is good idea.
Right, the allocation needs to occur in a sleepable context.
If you're just hashing something small and have no need for hardware acceleration then lib/sha1.c is fine.
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