Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] crypto: scompress - defer allocation of percpu scratch buffers

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On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:42:35PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This is a followup to 'crypto: scompress - eliminate percpu scratch buffers',
> which attempted to replace the scompress per-CPU buffer entirely, but as
> Herbert pointed out, this is not going to fly in the targeted use cases.
> 
> Instead, move the alloc/free of the buffers into the tfm init/exit hooks,
> so that we only have the per-CPU buffers allocated if their are any
> acomp ciphers of the right kind (i.e, ones that encapsulate a synchronous
> implementation) in use (#3)
> 
> Patches #1 and #2 are fixes for issues I spotted when working on this code.
> 
> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
>   crypto: scompress - don't sleep with preemption disabled
>   crypto: scompress - free partially allocated scratch buffers on
>     failure
>   crypto: scompress - defer allocation of scratch buffer to first use

All patches applied.  Thanks.
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