[dpdk-stable] patch 'cryptodev: fix API digest length comments' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.2

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable
yet. It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/07/17.
So please shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 7daa029bfac280d99ca99b73f984e12b0bf97b13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:56:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cryptodev: fix API digest length comments

[ upstream commit daf3c9152f54efa25244fc1f199c4fe8dc0ea999 ]

Fix misleading comments clarifying setting of digest length.

Fixes: d11b0f30df88 ("cryptodev: introduce API and framework for crypto devices")

Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h
index d3d38e4..8f81d25 100644
--- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h
+++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h
@@ -276,11 +276,10 @@ struct rte_crypto_auth_xform {
 	 * this specifies the length of the digest to be compared for the
 	 * session.
 	 *
+	 * It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the
+	 * digest length is compliant with the hash algorithm being used.
 	 * If the value is less than the maximum length allowed by the hash,
-	 * the result shall be truncated.  If the value is greater than the
-	 * maximum length allowed by the hash then an error will be generated
-	 * by *rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create* or by the
-	 * *rte_cryptodev_sym_enqueue_burst* if using session-less APIs.
+	 * the result shall be truncated.
 	 */
 
 	uint32_t add_auth_data_length;
@@ -571,7 +570,9 @@ struct rte_crypto_sym_op {
 			phys_addr_t phys_addr;
 			/**< Physical address of digest */
 			uint16_t length;
-			/**< Length of digest */
+			/**< Length of digest. This must be the same value as
+			 * @ref rte_crypto_auth_xform.digest_length.
+			 */
 		} digest; /**< Digest parameters */
 
 		struct {
-- 
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