From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751339AbeECXAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 19:00:19 -0400 Received: from orcrist.hmeau.com ([104.223.48.154]:40542 "EHLO deadmen.hmeau.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbeECXAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 19:00:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 07:00:06 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: "'Antoine Tenart'" Cc: David Laight , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com" , "maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com" , "gregory.clement@bootlin.com" , "miquel.raynal@bootlin.com" , "nadavh@marvell.com" , "oferh@marvell.com" , "igall@marvell.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack Message-ID: <20180503230006.oq6vycplwsomfprw@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20180502095725.31935-1-antoine.tenart@bootlin.com> <20180502095725.31935-2-antoine.tenart@bootlin.com> <02ad9eb93c494314a85db69886cf787a@AcuMS.aculab.com> <20180503122330.GB3324@kwain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180503122330.GB3324@kwain> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:23:30PM +0200, 'Antoine Tenart' wrote: > > I was expecting this question :) The thing is this define looks *a lot* > like the ones defined in other places in the crypto framework, such as > SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK and AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK. Those haven't been > tackled down so far by the whole VLA removal so the idea was that the > same solution will apply to the 3 of them (and then I'm not really > adding a new one). Those constructs only exist for reasons of backwards compatibility. There is no such reason for AEAD. So why do you need this? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt