On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:16:30PM +0000, Horia Geantă wrote: > > > And what about ALGIF path from user space ? > > What if the user never calls the last sendmsg() which will call > > hash_finup() ? > > > User is expected to follow the rules of the crypto API. > Of course, kernel won't (or at least shouldn't) crash in case of misuse. > However, in these cases some resources might not be freed - it's unavoidable. the crypto API does not require the presence of a finalisation. It is entirely optional. So leaving resources pinned down until final/finup occurs is unacceptable, both from user-space and the kernel. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
