From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipsec: Remove obsolete MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:48:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919074827.GW6390@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140918083818.GA13056@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:38:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Oops, should've sent this to Steffen:
>
> While tracking down the MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN crash in an old kernel
> I thought that this limit was rather arbitrary and we should
> just get rid of it.
>
> In fact it seems that we've already done all the work needed
> to remove it apart from actually removing it. This limit was
> there in order to limit stack usage. Since we've already
> switched over to allocating scratch space using kmalloc, there
> is no longer any need to limit the authentication length.
>
> This patch kills all references to it, including the BUG_ONs
> that led me here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied to ipsec-next, thanks Herbert!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-17 4:58 ipsec: Remove obsolete MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN Herbert Xu
2014-09-18 8:38 ` Herbert Xu
2014-09-19 7:48 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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