Re: crypto: api - Change crypto_unregister_instance argument type

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On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:13:23PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> In crypto_remove_instance, the code dereferences inst->tmpl. If you say that 
> it is not guaranteed that the alg is always wrapped by an inst, wouldn't we 
> have a potential invalid pointer?

This particular spot is always an instance because we just checked
it.  In any case the container_of buys us nothing and simply makes
the code more convoluted.

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