On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 18:21:06 +0800 Herbert Xu wrote: > The crypto completion function currently takes a pointer to a > struct crypto_async_request object. However, in reality the API > does not allow the use of any part of the object apart from the > data field. For example, ahash/shash will create a fake object > on the stack to pass along a different data field. "different data field" == copy the value to a different structure? A bit hard to parse TBH. > This leads to potential bugs where the user may try to dereference > or otherwise use the crypto_async_request object. > > This series changes the completion function to take a void * > argument instead of crypto_async_request. > > This series touches code in a number of different subsystems. > Most of them are trivial except for tls which was actually buggy > as it did exactly what was described above. Buggy means bug could be hit in real light or buggy == did not use the API right? > I'd like to pull all the changes through the crypto tree. But > feel free to object if you'd like the relevant patches to go > through your trees instead and I'll split this up.
