On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 09:49 -0700, 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 lay
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