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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] crypto: drbg - fix an error code in drbg_init_sym_kernel()
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:23 +0200
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Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2016, 11:19:58 schrieb Stephan Mueller:

Hi Stephan,

> Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2016, 12:16:19 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > We accidentally return PTR_ERR(NULL) which is success but we should
> > return -ENOMEM.
> > 
> > Fixes: 355912852115 ('crypto: drbg - use CTR AES instead of ECB AES')
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
> 
> That points to an error in the documentation of skcipher_request_alloc.

Apologies, that documentation issue has already been fixed in the 
cryptodev-2.6 tree. I was looking at the vanilla 4.6 tree for the 
documentation while I was preparing my patch.

Ciao
Stephan