linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sha1: modify sha1_update to use SHA1_BLOCK

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 15:22:45 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sha1: modify sha1_update to use
	SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:20:58PM -0700, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> David Miller (davem@...emloft.net) wrote:
> > 
> > The temp[] buffer is explicitly places inside the inner most
> > basic block so that the compiler doesn't allocate the stack
> > space unless that code path is taken.
> > 
> 
> Fixed in V2 (this patch). Thanks for the review.
> 
> -- >8 -- (snip)
> 
> Plus some other minor cleanup.

I don't really like the cleanups.  In any case, mixing up the
use of SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE with cleanups increases the chance of
introducing a bug.

So please redo the patch with only the addition of SHA1_BLOCK_SIZE
and nothing else.

Thanks,
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