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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:21:57 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: avoid encrypting/decrypting stack
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:55:42AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> 
> This patch removes calculating the "padlen". �Will this change break
> other use cases?
> 

No, the number of bytes being encrypted is still 'encrypted_datalen' which is
passed to skcipher_request_set_crypt().  It's okay if the input scatterlist is
longer than that; only the first 'encrypted_datalen' bytes will be used.

- Eric