Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:30:12 -0400 | | From | Brian Gerst <> | | Subject | Re: using crypto_digest() on non-kmalloc'd memory failures |
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Matt Domsch wrote: > James, David, > > Oleg noted that when we call crypto_digest() on memory allocated as a > static array in a module, rather than kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL), it returns > incorrect data, and with other functions, a kernel panic. > > Thoughts as to why this may be? Oleg's test patch appended. >
On some arches modules reside in vmalloc space.
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