linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ixp4xx_crypto panic with fragmented packets in scatterlist

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Message-ID: <20090226121043.GA13749@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:10:43 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	karl@...amoto.org, chohnstaedt@...ominate.com,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixp4xx_crypto panic with fragmented packets in
	scatterlist

Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> We can't merge this until _all_ of ARM has been fixed for walking
> scatterlist chains.

Right, this is definitely not the way to fix this bug.  Because
even if ARM completely supported chaining, you still have to fix
all the other architectures as well.

So please just fix the driver to remove the chaining before doing
DMA.

Thanks,
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