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    [NET]: Fix incorrect sg_mark_end() calls. · 51c739d1
    David S. Miller authored
    This fixes scatterlist corruptions added by
    
    	commit 68e3f5dd
    	[CRYPTO] users: Fix up scatterlist conversion errors
    
    The issue is that the code calls sg_mark_end() which clobbers the
    sg_page() pointer of the final scatterlist entry.
    
    The first part fo the fix makes skb_to_sgvec() do __sg_mark_end().
    
    After considering all skb_to_sgvec() call sites the most correct
    solution is to call __sg_mark_end() in skb_to_sgvec() since that is
    what all of the callers would end up doing anyways.
    
    I suspect this might have fixed some problems in virtio_net which is
    the sole non-crypto user of skb_to_sgvec().
    
    Other similar sg_mark_end() cases were converted over to
    __sg_mark_end() as well.
    
    Arguably sg_mark_end() is a poorly named function because it doesn't
    just "mark", it clears out the page pointer as a side effect, which is
    what led to these bugs in the first place.
    
    The one remaining plain sg_mark_end() call is in scsi_alloc_sgtable()
    and arguably it could be converted to __sg_mark_end() if only so that
    we can delete this confusing interface from linux/scatterlist.h
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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