Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?

James Morris
2003-08-15T23:36:00Z

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> > d) not disable preemption for long stretches while hashing (a
> > limitation of cryptoapi)
>
> Sounds like a bug in CryptoAPI that should be fixed in CryptoAPI.

This is for the case of hashing from a per cpu context, which is an
inherently unsafe context for introducing schedule points. This is not
a crypto API specific problem.

- James
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