[PATCH] crypto - shash: reduce minimum alignment of shash_desc structure

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Fri Jan 8 05:42:53 EST 2021


On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 10:22 AM Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 09:36:23AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > scatterlists, and I don't think we permit pointing the scatterlist
> > into request structures)
>
> Not only do we allow that, we do that in lots of places.

How does this work for kernels with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK?
I remember some other subsystems (usb, hid) adding workarounds
for that, but I don't see those in drivers/crypto

      Arnd



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