Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 09:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this >> removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of >> the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash >> to direct shash. By removing a layer of indirection this both improves >> performance and reduces stack usage. The stack allocation will be made >> a fixed size in a later patch to the crypto subsystem. > > I think you sent this before - it should be in net-next now. Yup, I see it in net-next: d17504b16ea2 wireless/lib80211: Convert from ahash to shash -- Kalle Valo -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
