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Message-ID: <20190124092359.hvizqdi2ptjdsot7@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:23:59 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
"open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE"
<linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 00/15] crypto: improved skcipher, aead, and hash
tests
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:50:35AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Thanks for yet another round of cleanup
>
> I'll look into these, but I'd like to clarify one thing first.
>
> IIUC, you are trying to deal with the case where a single scatterlist
> element describes a range that strides two pages, and I wonder if that
> is a valid use of scatterlists in the first place.
>
> Herbert?
Yes it is valid. IIRC the network stack may generate such a
scatterlist.
Thanks,
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