Re: crypto: skcipher - Unmap pages after an external error

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On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:22:17PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> Okay, but what about external callers that pass in an error?  (I mean, I don't
> actually see any currently, but the point of this patch is to allow it...)
> What would prevent the crash in scatterwalk_done() in that case?

With external callers the pages are always mapped and therefore
they have to be unmapped, regardless of whether the actual crypto
succeeded or not.

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