linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: aes_ccm: move struct aead

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:11:18 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, luto@...capital.net,
        sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        j@...fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: aes_ccm: move struct aead_req off the stack

On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 15:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > So use kzalloc
> 
> Do we really need kzalloc()? We have things on the stack right now,
> and don't initialize, so surely we don't really need to zero things? 

Err, never mind, I'm an idiot - we *do* initialize to 0, of course.

johannes