From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:19:46 +1000
> [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_alg reference counting > > Up until now we've relied on module reference counting to ensure that the > crypto_alg structures don't disappear from under us. This was good enough > as long as each crypto_alg came from exactly one module. > > However, with parameterised crypto algorithms a crypto_alg object may need > two or more modules to operate. This means that we need to count the > references to the crypto_alg object directly. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I had the feeling we were going to need to do this for other reasons, nice to see parameterized alg support forced the issue :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
