linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: nx - don't err if compressed output

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Message-ID: <20150730135210.GA17690@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:52:10 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: nx - don't err if compressed output > input

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:42:09PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Return success instead of error if compression succeeds but the output is
> larger than the input.
> 
> It's unlikely that the caller will use the compressed data since it's
> larger than the original uncompressed data, but there was no error and
> returning an error code is incorrect.  Further, for testing small input
> buffers, the output is likely to be larger than the input and success
> needs to be returned to verify the test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>

Applied.
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