Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: don't allocate IV on stack

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue Oct 31 2017 - 06:20:01 EST


On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 09:05:57AM +0000, Horia GeantÄ wrote:
> >
> > The driver that is mapping the IV directly should be fixed instead.
> > Only input that is given in the form of SG lists can be mapped.
> > Everything else should be copied if they need to go over DMA.
> >
> Herbert, wouldn't it make more sense to follow your previous suggestion:
> "Perhaps we should change the API so that it gets passed in as an
> SG list."
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg23082.html

Unless someone is willing to work on that then we have to fix the
drivers to fit the current API.

Cheers,
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