netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tls: cap the output scatter list to something reasonable

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 15:34:50 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, borisp@...dia.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        vfedorenko@...ek.ru, kernel-team@...com, axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tls: cap the output scatter list to something
 reasonable

On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 21:20:04 +0000 Al Viro wrote:
> > > > Alternatively we could parametrize iov_iter_npages() to take
> > > > the size as arg instead of using i->count, or do something
> > > > else..    
> > > 
> > > Er...  Would simply passing 16384/PAGE_SIZE instead of MAX_INT
> > > work for your purposes?  
> > 
> > The last arg is maxpages, I want maxbytes, no?  
> 
> What's the point of pass maxpages as argument to that, seeing that
> you ignore the value you've got?  I'm just trying to understand what
> semantics do you really intend for that thing.
> 
> Another thing: looking at that bunch now, for pipe-backed ones
> that won't work.  It's a bug, strictly speaking, even though
> the actual primitives that grab those pages *will* honour the
> truncation/reexpand.
> 
> Frankly, I wonder if we would be better off with making
> iov_iter_npages() a wrapper for that one, passing SIZE_MAX as
> maxbytes.  How does the following (completely untested) look for you?

That looks cleaner to me as well! Will you submit officially or should 
I take care of the conversion?  My v1 has already made its way to
net-next.