netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: port CCMP to cryptoapi's CCM driver

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Message-ID: <1381256865.13359.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:27:45 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
	"<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<patches@...aro.org>" <patches@...aro.org>,
	"<linville@...driver.com>" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: port CCMP to cryptoapi's CCM driver

On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 16:52 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> However, personally I don't think this should be necessary and in fact
> my patch removes a stack allocation of u8[48] (from
> ieee80211_crypto_ccmp_decrypt() and from ccmp_encrypt_skb() in wpa.c)
> so it does even out a bit.

I tend to agree.

johannes

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