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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: port CCMP to cryptoapi's CCM driver

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On 8 October 2013 13:52, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 13:31 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Hmm, thanks I guess. I'll need to review this in more detail, but I have
> a question first:
>
>> +     /* allocate the variable sized aead_request on the stack */
>> +     int l = DIV_ROUND_UP(crypto_aead_reqsize(tfm),
>> +                          sizeof(struct aead_request));
>> +     struct aead_request req[1 + l];
>
> This looks a bit odd, why round up first and then add one? Why even
> bother using a struct array rather than some local struct like
>
> struct {
>   struct aead_request req;
>   u8 data[crypto_aed_reqsize(tfm)];
> } req_data;
>
> or so?
>

Yes, that looks much better. I will put that in my v2, let me know if
you have more questions/comments.

BTW I should probably have mentioned that this is fully tested code:
my zd1211 works happily with it using pairwise CCMP with no
regressions in performance.


Cheers,
Ard.
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