David, On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 07:02:09PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > | > It's not clear that sig->digest is guaranteed to be kmalloc memory. > > Well, public_key_signature_free() will go bang if it's not kfree'able. Well, I had similar argument, FYI: | On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 10:09:23AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote: | > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 02:26:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: | > > | > > It's not clear that sig->digest is guaranteed to be kmalloc memory. | > > In any case, it's best not to mix unrelated changes in a single | > > patch. So please keep the kmalloc on output and then copy | > > sig->digest into it and put output into the SG list. | > | > It is not guaranteed that sig->s will be kmalloc memory either. (Except | > we know it for sure like we know the same about sig->digest). | > | > You can see in public_key_signature_free() that both fields are kfree'd | > together. | > | > So, I don't understand why we should treat sig->digest differently than | > sig->s. | > | > I was just removing kmalloc'ed output as crypto_akcipher_verify() does | > not need any output anymore. So, it's not some sort of mixing unrelated | > changes, from my point of view. But then I thought Herbert knows better and implemented his suggestion. Now I have contradictory requests from two maintainers.