From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: nx - don't err if compressed output > input Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:52:10 +0800 Message-ID: <20150730135210.GA17690@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1438213329-6884-1-git-send-email-ddstreet@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Streetman Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1438213329-6884-1-git-send-email-ddstreet@ieee.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 07:42:09PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > Return success instead of error if compression succeeds but the output is > larger than the input. > > It's unlikely that the caller will use the compressed data since it's > larger than the original uncompressed data, but there was no error and > returning an error code is incorrect. Further, for testing small input > buffers, the output is likely to be larger than the input and success > needs to be returned to verify the test. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman Applied. -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt