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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mac80211: aes_ccm: move struct aead_req off the stack
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> So use kzalloc

Do we really need kzalloc()? We have things on the stack right now, and
don't initialize, so surely we don't really need to zero things?

> This only addresses one half of the problem. The other problem, i.e.,
> the fact that the aad[] array lives on the stack of the caller, is
> handled adequately imo by the change proposed by Johannes.

But if we allocate things anyway, is it worth expending per-CPU buffers
on these?

johannes

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