[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 018/102] crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 22 17:51:14 UTC 2015


3.19.8-ckt7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>

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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