Re: [PATCH 2/2] MPI: Fix mpi_powm() when exponent is 0 and the result has no limbs

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 07:21:05 EST


2016-11-24 14:35 GMT+03:00 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm also made a fix for this yesterday -
>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479918484-31952-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I should add a record to the MAINTAINERS file that directs patches to MPI to
> keyrings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that I see things like this.
>

Would be nice. It was unclear who maintains it. Since all recent
changes to mpi were merged through crypto tree,
I send this to crypto maintainers.

>> The only small difference is that in my the limb space is not
>> allocated when it's not needed, i.e. when res->nlimbs == 0.
>
> I guess if nlimbs is 0 then the value is 0, right?
>

Right, as far as I understand.


> David