From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4.10 1/6] crypto/sha256: Refactor the API so it can
 be used without shash
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:57:57 +0800
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 09:57:53AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I actually do use incremental hashing later on.   BPF currently
> vmallocs() a big temporary buffer just so it can fill it and hash it.
> I change it to hash as it goes.

How much data is this supposed to hash on average? If it's a large
amount then perhaps using the existing crypto API would be a better
option than adding this.

Cheers,
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