Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 00/15] crypto: improved skcipher, aead, and hash tests

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jan 24 2019 - 04:24:09 EST


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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