Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:58:07 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, dustin.kirkland@gmail.com,
       pjssilva@ime.usp.br
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] eCryptfs: Allocate up to two scatterlists for
	crypto ops on keys
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:40:53AM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> I have received some reports of out-of-memory errors on some older AMD
> architectures. These errors are what I would expect to see if
> crypt_stat->key were split between two separate pages. eCryptfs should
> not assume that any of the memory sent through virt_to_scatterlist()
> is all contained in a single page, and so this patch allocates two
> scatterlist structs instead of one when processing keys. I have
> received confirmation from one person affected by this bug that this
> patch resolves the issue for him, and so I am submitting it for
> inclusion in a future stable release.

Is this already in Linus's tree?  If so, do you have the git commit id
for it?

If not, we can't take it into a stable kernel until that happens.  To
get patches automatically added to the stable tree, when they get added
to Linus's tree, just add:
	Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
to the signed-off-by: area of the patch and it will get automatically
routed to us.

thanks,

greg k-h
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