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

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 18 October 2004 15:29, Matt Domsch wrote:
>James, David,
>
>Oleg noted that when we call crypto_digest() on memory allocated as
> a static array in a module, rather than kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL), it
> returns incorrect data, and with other functions, a kernel panic.
>
>Thoughts as to why this may be?  Oleg's test patch appended.

Off topic Matt, but why am I getting 4 to 6 copies of the messages you 
send?  All identical time stamps, the whole works.

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