Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac80211: aes_ccm: move struct aead_req off the stack | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:10:35 +0200 |
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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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