Re: [PATCH] crypto: nx - don't err if compressed output > input

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jul 30 2015 - 09:52:23 EST


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 <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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