netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 13/18] wireless/lib80211: Convert from ahash to shash

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:24:53 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Rabin Vincent <rabinv@...s.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/18] wireless/lib80211: Convert from ahash to shash

On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 09:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of
> the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash
> to direct shash. By removing a layer of indirection this both improves
> performance and reduces stack usage. The stack allocation will be made
> a fixed size in a later patch to the crypto subsystem.
> 
I think you sent this before - it should be in net-next now.

johannes