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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:18:41AM +0200, 'Antoine Tenart' wrote:
>
> In this driver we need to perform in certain cases an invalidation,
> which is done thanks to invalidation requests. To do this we create
> dummy requests, using SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK and
> AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK for ciphers and hashes. So when adding the AEAD
> algs support, in patch 8/10, AEAD_REQUEST_ON_STACK is used for the same
> reason.
>
> Should we allocate this in a different way?

These are not uses intended for the ON_STACK macros. They were
only ever meant for existing users of the synchonous crypto API.

I would suggest either allocating a new request on the spot or if
that is not convenient, pre-allocating it in the cra_init function.

Cheers,
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