[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 22 00:32:23 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6a1228448837182c2f37c8ef2cc49ce6b037cfeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:05:35 +0800
Subject: crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer

commit f898c522f0e9ac9f3177d0762b76e2ab2d2cf9c0 upstream.

This patch removes a bogus BUG_ON in the ablkcipher path that
triggers when the destination buffer is different from the source
buffer and is scattered.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c b/drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c
index f757a0f..3beed38 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c
@@ -904,7 +904,6 @@ static int ablk_perform(struct ablkcipher_request *req, int encrypt)
 		crypt->mode |= NPE_OP_NOT_IN_PLACE;
 		/* This was never tested by Intel
 		 * for more than one dst buffer, I think. */
-		BUG_ON(req->dst->length < nbytes);
 		req_ctx->dst = NULL;
 		if (!chainup_buffers(dev, req->dst, nbytes, &dst_hook,
 					flags, DMA_FROM_DEVICE))
--
1.9.1





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