Re: [v3 PATCH 7/8] crypto: scomp - Remove support for most non-trivial destination SG lists

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:13:52AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > 5b855462cc7e3f3 Herbert Xu                2025-03-09 @174  	if (req->dst && !dlen)
> >                                                                     ^^^^^^^^
> > Is this check necessary?
> 
> This is not trying to catch a null req->dst, but it's trying to
> detect an combination of a non-null req->dst with a zero dlen.
> 
> A zero dlen is used to allocate req->dst on demand, which would
> conflict with a non-null req->dst.

Actually I take that back.  Yes this test should be removed as
it's a remnant of the NULL dst code which has no users.

Cheers,
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