> On 17 Oct 2016, at 10:35, Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
