netdev - Re: [net-next v5 3/3] net/tls: Remove redundant array allocation.

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Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vakul.garg@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, borisp@...lanox.com, aviadye@...lanox.com,
        davejwatson@...com
Subject: Re: [net-next v5 3/3] net/tls: Remove redundant array allocation.

From: Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@....com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:56:13 +0530

> In function decrypt_skb(), array allocation in case when sgout is NULL
> is unnecessary. Instead, local variable sgin_arr[] can be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@....com>

Hmmm...

Dave, can you take a look at this?  Do you think there might have
been a reason you felt that you needed to dynamically allocate
the scatterlists when you COW and skb and do in-place decryption?

I guess this change is ok, nsg can only get smaller when the SKB
is COW'd.