On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:18:41AM +0200, 'Antoine Tenart' wrote: > > In this driver we need to perform in certain cases an invalidation, > which is done thanks to invalidation requests. To do this we create > dummy requests, using SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK and > AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK for ciphers and hashes. So when adding the AEAD > algs support, in patch 8/10, AEAD_REQUEST_ON_STACK is used for the same > reason. > > Should we allocate this in a different way?
These are not uses intended for the ON_STACK macros. They were only ever meant for existing users of the synchonous crypto API. I would suggest either allocating a new request on the spot or if that is not convenient, pre-allocating it in the cra_init function. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
