Re: Remaining crypto API regressions with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:25:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> > The following crypto drivers initialize a scatterlist to point into an
> > ablkcipher_request, which may have been allocated on the stack with
> > SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK():
> >
> >         drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-aes-xts.c:162
> >         drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-aes.c:94
> 
> These are real, and I wish I'd known about them sooner.

Are you sure? Any instance of *_ON_STACK must only be used with
sync algorithms and most drivers under drivers/crypto declare
themselves as async.

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