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SubjectRe: Doing crypto in small stack buffers (bluetooth vs vmalloc-stack crash, etc)
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Herbert Xu
<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:48:25AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> No we never had such an API in the kernel. However, I see that
>> rxkad does some pretty silly things and we should be able to avoid
>> using the stack in pretty much all cases. Let me try to come up with
>> something.
>
> Here it is:
>
> ---8<---
> Subject: rxrpc: Avoid using stack memory in SG lists in rxkad

Looks reasonable to me. Unless anyone tells me otherwise, my plan is
to queue it in my virtually-mapped stack series and to ask Ingo to
apply it via -tip.

If it went in via the networking tree, that would work as well, but it
would introduce a bisectability problem.

Thanks!

--Andy

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