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Message-ID: <20071031080143.GD5059@kernel.dk>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:01:43 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix networking scatterlist regressions.

On Wed, Oct 31 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:46:21 +0100
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 30 2007, David Miller wrote:
> > > @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ decryptor(struct scatterlist *sg, void *data)
> > >  	if (thislen == 0)
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  
> > > -	sg_mark_end(desc->frags, desc->fragno);
> > > +	__sg_mark_end(desc->frags, desc->fragno);
> > >  
> > >  	ret = crypto_blkcipher_decrypt_iv(&desc->desc, desc->frags,
> > >  					  desc->frags, thislen);
> > 
> > Hmm? These don't seem right. It also has a weird code sequence:
>  ...
> > Did something go wrong there?
> 
> Yes, I fixed those up after doing some allmodconfig builds.
> 
> Here is the final patch I actually pushed to Linus:

That fixes up the sg_mark_end() bit, but it's still calling
sg_init_table() just a few lines further down. Is that correct?


-- 
Jens Axboe

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