* @sec4_sg_dma: physical mapped address of h/w link table
  * @src_nents: number of segments in input scatterlist
  * @sec4_sg_bytes: length of dma mapped sec4_sg space
- * @sec4_sg: pointer to h/w link table
  * @hw_desc: the h/w job descriptor followed by any referenced link tables
+ * @sec4_sg: h/w link table
  */
 struct ahash_edesc {
        dma_addr_t dst_dma;
        dma_addr_t sec4_sg_dma;
        int src_nents;
        int sec4_sg_bytes;
-       struct sec4_sg_entry *sec4_sg;
        u32 hw_desc[DESC_JOB_IO_LEN / sizeof(u32)] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       struct sec4_sg_entry sec4_sg[0];
 };
 
 static inline void ahash_unmap(struct device *dev,
 
                edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
                edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-               edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
 
                ret = ctx_map_to_sec4_sg(desc, jrdev, state, ctx->ctx_len,
                                         edesc->sec4_sg, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
        init_job_desc_shared(desc, ptr, sh_len, HDR_SHARE_DEFER | HDR_REVERSE);
 
        edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-       edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
        edesc->src_nents = 0;
 
        ret = ctx_map_to_sec4_sg(desc, jrdev, state, ctx->ctx_len,
 
        edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
        edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-       edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
 
        ret = ctx_map_to_sec4_sg(desc, jrdev, state, ctx->ctx_len,
                                 edesc->sec4_sg, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
                dev_err(jrdev, "could not allocate extended descriptor\n");
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
-       edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
+
        edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
        edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
 
 
                edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
                edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-               edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
                edesc->dst_dma = 0;
 
                state->buf_dma = buf_map_to_sec4_sg(jrdev, edesc->sec4_sg,
 
        edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
        edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-       edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
 
        state->buf_dma = try_buf_map_to_sec4_sg(jrdev, edesc->sec4_sg, buf,
                                                state->buf_dma, buflen,
 
                edesc->src_nents = src_nents;
                edesc->sec4_sg_bytes = sec4_sg_bytes;
-               edesc->sec4_sg = (void *)(edesc + 1);
                edesc->dst_dma = 0;
 
                if (src_nents > 1) {