netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: move struct aead

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:17:08 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: move struct aead_req off the stack

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 15:05 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

That really ought to have been you - I think I may have lost that by
accident. I'll change it.

> In addition, take care not to put any of our own stack allocations
> into
> scatterlists. This involves reserving some extra room when allocating
> the
> aead_request structures, and referring to those allocations in the
> scatter-
> lists (while copying the data from/to the stack before/after the
> crypto
> operation, as appropriate)

I removed the "to the stack after" language, since that doesn't
actually occur :)


> --- a/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.h
> +++ b/net/mac80211/aes_cmac.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/crypto.h>
>  
> +#define CMAC_AAD_LEN	20

This part (and aes_cmac.c changes) shouldn't have been there, but that
was my mistake - removed.

With that, I've applied this. Will send it to davem tomorrow.

johannes