From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
jmorris@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
Oleg Makarenko <mole@quadra.ru>
Subject: Re: using crypto_digest() on non-kmalloc'd memory failures
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:10:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410181810.41406.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018192952.GB8607@lists.us.dell.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-18 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-18 19:29 Matt Domsch
2004-10-18 19:35 ` James Morris
2004-10-18 20:05 ` Oleg Makarenko
2004-10-18 20:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-18 23:04 ` James Morris
2004-10-19 5:41 ` Oleg Makarenko
2004-10-18 20:30 ` Brian Gerst
2004-10-18 22:10 ` Gene Heskett [this message]
2004-10-18 22:29 ` dupes (was Re: using crypto_digest() on non-kmalloc'd memory failures) Matt Domsch
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