On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:44 AM, Lars Ellenberg
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:43:19PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> > In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
>> > removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STA
On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:43:19PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> > removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of
> > the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by conver
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of
> the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash
> to direct shash. By removing a laye
In preparing to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
removes the discouraged use of AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK in favor of
the smaller SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK by converting from ahash-wrapped-shash
to direct shash. By removing a layer of indirection this both improves
performance and reduces
