Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:58:07 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH] eCryptfs: Allocate up to two scatterlists for crypto ops on keys |
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:40:53AM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote: > 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.
Is this already in Linus's tree? If so, do you have the git commit id for it?
If not, we can't take it into a stable kernel until that happens. To get patches automatically added to the stable tree, when they get added to Linus's tree, just add: Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> to the signed-off-by: area of the patch and it will get automatically routed to us.
thanks,
greg k-h
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