From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: mv_cesa - fix hashing of chunks > 1920 bytes
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:57:13 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> This was broken by commit 7759995c75ae0cbd4c861582908449f6b6208e7a (yes,
> myself). The basic problem here is since the digest state is only saved
> after the last chunk, the state array is only valid when handling the
> first chunk of the next buffer. Broken since linux-3.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
> ---

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
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