From: "Ronen Shitrit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:50:15 +0200
> On the MD5 code we allocate 2 structures in one kmalloc:
> api.c (line 129):
> tfm = kmalloc(sizeof(*tfm) + alg->cra_ctxsize, GFP_KERNEL);
Besides the things Herbert Xu has pointed out, that kmalloc()
is very much d
Ronen Shitrit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The address of the first structure is aligned to 8.
> Since the first structure cipher_tfm is of size: (2 + 9(union))*4 =
> 11*4,
This calculation is correct for a 32-bit processor. However, on a
64-bit processor you'll find that the size of crypto_tf