Re: [PATCH 03/13] crypto: x86/sha - yield FPU context during long loops

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> Right, this used to exist, but it didn't actually do anything, and it had
> suffered heavily from bitrot.  For example, some callers specified MAY_SLEEP
> when actually they couldn't sleep.  IIRC, some callers also didn't even bother
> initializing the flags, so they were passing uninitialized memory.  So I removed
> it in commit 877b5691f27a ("crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags").
> 
> Has there been any consideration of just adding the crypto_shash_update_large()
> helper function that I had mentioned in the commit message of 877b5691f27a?

I had forgotten about this :)

Perhaps we should just convert any users that trigger these warnings
over to ahash? The shash interface was never meant to process large
amounts of data anyway.

Cheers,
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