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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:35:24 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> > d) not disable preemption for long stretches while hashing (a
> >    limitation of cryptoapi)
> 
> Sounds like a bug in CryptoAPI that should be fixed in CryptoAPI.

This is for the case of hashing from a per cpu context, which is an
inherently unsafe context for introducing schedule points.  This is not
a crypto API specific problem.


- James
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James Morris
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