On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Verma, Shally <shally.ve...@cavium.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was looking at linux-generic/odp_crypto.c implementation and it looks like 
> that each odp_crypto_operation() call assumes that each Packet is contained 
> within 1-segment or user passing either packet or segment len, whichever is 
> smaller.
>
> As I understand ODP Packet structure, it is scattered across segments and 
> that segments may not be contiguous. So  let's say if App sets Segment Length 
> as 32k and pass packet of length 64k with cipher_range.len = 64K, then 
> current linux-generic/ODP_Crypto implementation may not work correct.

It appears you are correct. +cc Nikhil to confirm. Sounds like this is
a bug. Crypto operations should work on multi-segment packets.
However, if we want to restrict crypto ops to single-segment packets
then these routines need to fail rather than risk segfaults when
passed multi-segment packets.

>
> Could anyone please confirm it? Or Am I missing any baseline assumption here 
> on how packets are supposed to pass for linux-generic/crypto ops?
>
> Thanks
> Shally

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