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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: initialize entry len for null input in crypto
 hash sg list walk
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:09:45 +0800
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 04:18:08PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> For the special case when we have a null input string, we want
> to initialize the entry len to 0 for the hash/ahash walk, so
> cyrpto_hash_walk_last will return the correct result indicating
> that we have completed the scatter list walk.  Otherwise we may
> keep walking the sg list and access bogus memory address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>

Sorry but which driver is broken by this?

Thanks,
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