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Patch "crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
crypto-ixp4xx-remove-bogus-bug_on-on-scattered-dst-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From f898c522f0e9ac9f3177d0762b76e2ab2d2cf9c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:05:35 +0800
Subject: crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

commit f898c522f0e9ac9f3177d0762b76e2ab2d2cf9c0 upstream.

This patch removes a bogus BUG_ON in the ablkcipher path that triggers when the destination buffer is different from the source buffer and is scattered.

---
 drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c +0 -1
@@ -915,7 +915,6 @@ static int ablk_perform(struct ablkciphe
 		crypt->mode |= NPE_OP_NOT_IN_PLACE;
 		/* This was never tested by Intel
 		 * for more than one dst buffer, I think. */
-		BUG_ON(req->dst->length < nbytes);
 		req_ctx->dst = NULL;
 		if (!chainup_buffers(dev, req->dst, nbytes, &dst_hook,
 					flags, DMA_FROM_DEVICE))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/crypto-ixp4xx-remove-bogus-bug_on-on-scattered-dst-buffer.patch