[PATCHv2 06/27] crypto: ahash: increase the maximum allowed statesize

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Mon Jul 4 02:19:25 PDT 2016


On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:17:02PM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
>
> I need some clarification on this, afaik request_alloc related
> functionality only works per-request basis. The export / import
> functionality however is supposed to work across multiple requests.
> The test code for example does this:

Why are you trying to allocate memory in export/import at all?
The preferred approach is to unconditionally allocate the memory
in ahash_request_alloc.

Cheers,
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