Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib/scatterlist: Fix mapping iterator when sg->offset is greater than PAGE_SIZE

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 08:35:33PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 02:02:21PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:15:02PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > > All mapping iterator logic is based on the assumption that sg->offset
> > > is always lower than PAGE_SIZE.
> > > 
> > > But there are situations where sg->offset is such that the SG item
> > > is on the second page.
> 
> could you explain how sg->offset becomes >= PAGE_SIZE?

The network stack can produce SG list elements that are longer
than PAGE_SIZE.  If you the iterate over it one page at a time
then the offset can exceed PAGE_SIZE.

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