The network layer tries to allocate high order pages for skb_buff
fragments, this leads to problems if we pass such a buffer to
crypto because crypto assumes to have always order null pages
in the scatterlists.
This was not a problem so far, because the network stack linearized
all buffers before
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:14:51AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> The network layer tries to allocate high order pages for skb_buff
> fragments, this leads to problems if we pass such a buffer to
> crypto because crypto assumes to have always order null pages
> in the scatterlists.
I don't under
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 06:05:27PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:14:51AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > The network layer tries to allocate high order pages for skb_buff
> > fragments, this leads to problems if we pass such a buffer to
> > crypto because crypto assumes t
