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From: =?UTF-8?q?Horia=20Geant=C4=83?= <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:56:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: doc - clarify hash callbacks state machine
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Add a note that it is perfectly legal to "abandon" a request object:
- call .init() and then (as many times) .update()
- _not_ call any of .final(), .finup() or .export() at any point in
future
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222114741.GA27631@gondor.apana.org.au
Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
---
Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst b/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
index 66f50d32dcec..c45c6f400dbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
+++ b/Documentation/crypto/devel-algos.rst
@@ -236,6 +236,14 @@ when used from another part of the kernel.
|
'---------------> HASH2
+Note that it is perfectly legal to "abandon" a request object:
+- call .init() and then (as many times) .update()
+- _not_ call any of .final(), .finup() or .export() at any point in future
+
+In other words implementations should mind the resource allocation and clean-up.
+No resources related to request objects should remain allocated after a call
+to .init() or .update(), since there might be no chance to free them.
+
Specifics Of Asynchronous HASH Transformation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~