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Commit ac97b9f9 authored by Michael Halcrow's avatar Michael Halcrow Committed by Linus Torvalds
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eCryptfs: Allocate up to two scatterlists for crypto ops on keys



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.

Note that virt_to_scatterlist() runs sg_init_table() on the scatterlist
structs passed to it, so the calls to sg_init_table() in
decrypt_passphrase_encrypted_session_key() are redundant.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarPaulo J. S. Silva <pjssilva@ime.usp.br>
Cc: "Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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