netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] macsec: allocate sg and iv on the heap

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Message-ID: <38ae03e7-4e28-eb8f-2d03-b2017cbc5462@stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:19:33 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] macsec: allocate sg and iv on the heap

On 14.06.2016 15:25, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> For the crypto callbacks to work properly, we cannot have sg and iv on
> the stack.  Use kmalloc instead, with a single allocation for
> aead_request + scatterlist + iv.
> 
> Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver")
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>