Re: [PATCH 01/10] crypto: aead - allow to allocate AEAD requests on the stack

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:23:30PM +0200, 'Antoine Tenart' wrote:
>
> I was expecting this question :) The thing is this define looks *a lot*
> like the ones defined in other places in the crypto framework, such as
> SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK and AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK. Those haven't been
> tackled down so far by the whole VLA removal so the idea was that the
> same solution will apply to the 3 of them (and then I'm not really
> adding a new one).

Those constructs only exist for reasons of backwards compatibility.

There is no such reason for AEAD.  So why do you need this?

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