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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Subject: Re: ipsec: Remove obsolete MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:48:27 +0200
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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!