On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:01 AM Feifei Wang <feifei.wa...@arm.com> wrote: > > > @@ -1190,8 +1190,8 @@ static int partial_hash_compute(enum > > icp_qat_hw_auth_algo hash_alg, > > > uint8_t *data_out) { > > > int digest_size; > > > - uint8_t digest[qat_hash_get_digest_size( > > > - ICP_QAT_HW_AUTH_ALGO_DELIMITER)]; > > > + uint8_t *digest = (uint8_t *)calloc(qat_hash_get_digest_size( > > > + ICP_QAT_HW_AUTH_ALGO_DELIMITER), > > > + sizeof(uint8_t)); > > > > calloc can fail. > > cast is unneded. > > > > A simple uint8_t digest[...] = { 0 } would do the job. > > Thanks for your comment. Actually, we have tried to use this simple method: > uint8_t digest[qat_hash_get_digest_size(ICP_QAT_HW_AUTH_ALGO_DELIMITER)] = > {0}; > > And it will report compile error: > ../drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_session.c:1194:4: error: variable-sized object > may not be initialized > 1194 | ICP_QAT_HW_AUTH_ALGO_DELIMITER)] = {0}; > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ../drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_session.c:1194:40: warning: excess elements in > array initializer > 1194 | ICP_QAT_HW_AUTH_ALGO_DELIMITER)] = {0}; > | ^ > ../drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_session.c:1194:40: note: (near initialization > for ‘digest’) > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. > > I think this is because compiler cannot know the size of digest due to > function > 'qat_hash_get_digest_size' during compiling time.
Ok, I had not noticed the function call. Please check dynamic allocation succeeds. + free this temp buffer before leaving this helper function. -- David marchand