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

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:05:41 +0400
Oleg Makarenko <mole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So to calculate digest on some static data I need to copy them to 
> kmalloc'ed memory first, right?
> 
> Can this copying be somehow avoided?

It is necessary to be able to kmap() the data item
passed into the crypto layer, so dynamically allocated
memory obtained via kmalloc() or similar must be used.
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