On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Miloslav Trmac <mitr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- "Shirish Pargaonkar" <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Instead of determining and allocating a char array for use during usage of
>> crypto_shash_* calls, would like to instead dynamically
>> allocate (and free) storage for the duration of crypto calculation
>> (crypto_shash_init,
>> crypto_shash_update, and crypto_shash_final)
>> But everytime I try, it results in some sort of oops in the cifs module.
> Let me just suggest something, without trying it...
>
>> +struct sdesc {
>> + struct shash_desc shash;
>> + char *ctx;
> char ctx[];
> would be correct here.
>> +};
> And you need to allocate both shash_desc and "ctx" together as a single piece of memory - exactly mirror the memory layout of the original "sdesc" variable.
> Mirek
>
Mirek,
Thanks, that worked.
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