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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "'Antoine Tenart'" <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	"gregory.clement@bootlin.com" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
	"miquel.raynal@bootlin.com" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	"nadavh@marvell.com" <nadavh@marvell.com>,
	"oferh@marvell.com" <oferh@marvell.com>,
	"igall@marvell.com" <igall@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 07:00:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180503230006.oq6vycplwsomfprw@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180503122330.GB3324@kwain>

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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-02  9:57 [PATCH 00/10] crypto: inside-secure - AEAD support Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02 14:55   ` David Laight
2018-05-03 12:23     ` 'Antoine Tenart'
2018-05-03 23:00       ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2018-05-04  7:18         ` 'Antoine Tenart'
2018-05-05  6:18           ` Herbert Xu
2018-05-05 17:17             ` 'Antoine Tenart'
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] crypto: inside-secure - rework cipher functions for future AEAD support Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 03/10] crypto: inside-secure - rework the alg type settings in the context Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 04/10] crypto: inside-secure - make the context control size dynamic Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 05/10] crypto: inside-secure - make the key and context size computation dynamic Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 06/10] crypto: inside-secure - fix the hash then encrypt/decrypt types Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 07/10] crypto: inside-secure - improve error reporting Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 08/10] crypto: inside-secure - authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes)) support Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 09/10] crypto: inside-secure - authenc(hmac(sha224),cbc(aes)) support Antoine Tenart
2018-05-02  9:57 ` [PATCH 10/10] crypto: inside-secure - authenc(hmac(sha1),cbc(aes)) support Antoine Tenart

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