On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 10:30 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Yes. But as I replied, setting the req size is not supported atm, > although it is reasonable to demand a way to allocate additional data > in the request specifically for this issue. So let's proceed with the > aead_request_alloc/free patch, but I would like to propose something > on the API side to address this particular issue Well, if your other patch to make it OK to be on-stack would be applied instead, this wouldn't make much sense either :) In this particular patch, we could reduce the size of the struct, but I don't actually think it'll make a difference to go from 48 to 36 bytes, given alignment etc., so I think I'll just leave it as is. johannes