Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:27:28 -0600
From: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com,
       dustin.kirkland@gmail.com, pjssilva@ime.usp.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Allocate up to two scatterlists for crypto
	ops on keys
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Reply-To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:58:07AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Nope. This patch needs to be merged to that point.
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