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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sg_set_buf
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:22:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020102200.GA6628@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161018213755.GA10777@fieldses.org>

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:37:55PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> The NFS code is using sg_set_buf to turn a bit of stack menory into a
> scatterlist it can pass to the crypto code.  That started BUG()ing as of
> ac4e97abce9b "scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear
> mapping".
> 
> Is that BUG() being overly strict, or is this something we should never
> have been doing in the first place?

In general we use scatterlists to pass dma addresses to hardware, so
yes, they should not point to the stack. 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18 21:37 sg_set_buf J. Bruce Fields
2016-10-20 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-10-20 13:20   ` sg_set_buf J. Bruce Fields
2016-10-20 13:31     ` sg_set_buf Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-20 21:42       ` sg_set_buf J. Bruce Fields
2016-10-21 12:26         ` sg_set_buf Christoph Hellwig

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