Re: [HIFN 06/n]: Properly handle requests for less than the full scatterlist
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-07 13:02:04
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:30:28PM +0200, Patrick McHardy (kaber@trash.net) wrote:
[HIFN]: Properly handle requests for less than the full scatterlist
The scatterlist may contain more data than the crypto request, causing
an underflow of the remaining byte count while walking the list.
Use the minimum of the scatterlist element size and the remaining byte
count specified in the crypto request to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [off-list ref]That one is the nastiest! Thanks a lot Patrick for fixing that. Ack of course. -- Evgeniy Polyakov