[PATCH] cifs: Allocate crypto structures on the fly for calculating signatures of incoming packets

[Aurélien Aptel]

Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy at gmail.com> writes:
> + Aurelien
>
> Ok, before negotiate tcpStatus is not CifsGood, so, the allocation
> won't be skipped. I think this function should be no-op for all
> protocols except SMB 3.1.1 to reflect the meaning. Other protocols
> don't use preauth hash anyway.
>
> @Aurelien, @everybody, what would be your thoughts about moving
> protocol version check from IF block to the top of the function thus
> skipping to allocate preauth hash for protocols that don't need it? In
> this case Long's patch will require a change to keep
> smb2_crypto_shash_allocate() and its invocation.

Sounds good. I think we could go even further and do preauth crypto
alloc/dealloc all in the preauth hash compute function too and remove
the pointers from the server struct (except for the byte array with the
hash result). It only runs during negprot+session establishement which
is not a hot path at all and would keep the memory model simpler.

Cheers,
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