netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: move extra crypto data off the stack

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Message-ID: <1476696918.19992.15.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:35:18 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     "<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        "<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: move extra crypto data off the stack

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 10:30 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> Yes. But as I replied, setting the req size is not supported atm,
> although it is reasonable to demand a way to allocate additional data
> in the request specifically for this issue. So let's proceed with the
> aead_request_alloc/free patch, but I would like to propose something
> on the API side to address this particular issue

Well, if your other patch to make it OK to be on-stack would be applied
instead, this wouldn't make much sense either :)

In this particular patch, we could reduce the size of the struct, but I
don't actually think it'll make a difference to go from 48 to 36 bytes,
given alignment etc., so I think I'll just leave it as is.

johannes