Re: [PATCH] crypto: testmgr: don't allocate IV on stack

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 07:56:26AM +0000, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> The IV was allocated on the stack in testmgr skcipher tests.
> Since HW based tfm providers need to DMA the IV to the HW,
> this leads to problems and is detected by the DMA-API debug
> code.
> 
> Fix it by allocating the IV using kmalloc instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The driver that is mapping the IV directly should be fixed instead.
Only input that is given in the form of SG lists can be mapped.
Everything else should be copied if they need to go over DMA.

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