Re: using crypto_digest() on non-kmalloc'd memory failures

[James Morris]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Matt Domsch wrote:

> James, David,
> 
> Oleg noted that when we call crypto_digest() on memory allocated as a
> static array in a module, rather than kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL), it returns
> incorrect data, and with other functions, a kernel panic.
> 
> Thoughts as to why this may be?  Oleg's test patch appended.

I don't recall the exact details, but it's related to using kmap in the 
core crypto code.


- James
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James Morris
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