Re: [patch 32/37] CRYPTO: api: scatterwalk_copychunks() fails toadvance through scatterlist

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:14:37PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:41:32AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >
> > > [CRYPTO] api: scatterwalk_copychunks() fails to advance through scatterlist
> > 
> > This patch seems to cause some problems, I get reproducable freezes
> > on the receiving system with net-2.6.22 when sending IPsec packets
> > larger than the mtu (reproduced about 10 times). Reverting this
> > patch seems to fix it. In a few cases the oops also occured on the
> > sending system.
> > 
> > Backtrace from UML (sending system):
> > 
> > uml:~# ping 10.0.0.1 -s 20000
> > PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 20000(20028) bytes of data.
> > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
> > Call Trace:
> 
> Indeed.  That patch was buggy.  Sorry for not catching this earlier.
> 
> This should fix the problem.
> 
> [CRYPTO] api: Use the right value when advancing scatterwalk_copychunks
> 
> In the scatterwalk_copychunks loop, We should be advancing by
> len_this_page and not nbytes.  The latter is the total length.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is this an "add-on" patch, or a replacement one?

thanks,

greg k-h
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