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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 11/14] treewide: Prepare to remove VLA usage for AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 06:02:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> Looking through some of the drivers, I found this interesting one:
>
> As I said before these patches are fundamentally broken. Users
> of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK can only use sync algorithm providers
> and therefore drivers are irrelevant.

I don't understand what this means. Can you give an example of what
you want to see happen that will accomplish the VLA removals?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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