linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 07:00:06 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     'Antoine Tenart' <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
Cc:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com" <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        "maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com" <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        "gregory.clement@...tlin.com" <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        "miquel.raynal@...tlin.com" <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        "nadavh@...vell.com" <nadavh@...vell.com>,
        "oferh@...vell.com" <oferh@...vell.com>,
        "igall@...vell.com" <igall@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on
 the stack

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:23:30PM +0200, 'Antoine Tenart' wrote:
>
> I was expecting this question :) The thing is this define looks *a lot*
> like the ones defined in other places in the crypto framework, such as
> SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK and AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK. Those haven't been
> tackled down so far by the whole VLA removal so the idea was that the
> same solution will apply to the 3 of them (and then I'm not really
> adding a new one).

Those constructs only exist for reasons of backwards compatibility.

There is no such reason for AEAD.  So why do you need this?

Cheers,
-- 
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