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

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Sun Jun 26 22:00:31 PDT 2016


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:58:43AM +0300, Tero Kristo wrote:
>
> Ok, I think I need to allocate the storage space locally then within
> the driver. Would it be ok to call kmalloc / free in the export /
> import implementation of the driver? The size of the unhashed buffer
> in omap-sham is unfortunately rather large.

The allocation should usually be done from the request_alloc
function, i.e., you set the reqsize and the user does the allocation
for you.

Cheers,
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