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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:37:24 +0000
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To:     Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] crypto: qat - use pre-allocated buffers in
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 08:47:05PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> If requests exceed 4 entries buffers, memory is allocated dynamically.
> 
> In addition, remove the CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY flag from both aead
> and skcipher alg structures.
> 

There is nothing that says that algorithms can ignore
!CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY if there are too many scatterlist entries.  See the
comment above the definition of CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY.

If you need to introduce this constraint, then you will need to audit the users
of !CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY to verify that none of them are issuing requests
that violate this constraint, then add this to the documentation comment for
CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY.

- Eric