On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 01:08:14 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > > Add documentation for the pointer voodoo that is happening in > > crypto/ahash.c in ahash_op_unaligned(). This code is quite confusing, so > > add a beefy chunk of documentation. > > > > Moreover, make sure the mangled request is completely restored after > > finishing this unaligned operation. This means restoring all of .result, > > .priv, .base.data and .base.complete . > > There is no point in saving priv because it is only meant to be > used by the crypto API.
OK, understood. But shall we not preserve the request intact in case a crypto- api function called crypto_ahash_final() with request which has .priv already set? Then we would have really funny corruption of the request going on and I'm not sure that'd be nice. > Otherwise the patch looks OK to me. Thanks! Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
