Re: [PATCH] crypto: initialize entry len for null input in crypto hash sg list walk

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry but which driver is broken by this?

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