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Chuck Lever
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[ Upstream commite9be933959] The crypto/krb5 library accepts data in scatterlist form, but the GSS-API layer presents RPC payloads as struct xdr_buf. Bridge that gap with a pair of helper functions: xdr_buf_to_sg() - populate a caller-supplied scatterlist array from a byte range xdr_buf_to_sg_alloc() - populate a caller-supplied inline scatterlist, chaining to a heap- allocated overflow for large payloads The inline array (typically stack-allocated at eight entries) covers the common case of small RPCs with no heap allocation on the encrypt/decrypt path. Only buffers spanning many pages incur a kmalloc for the chained extension. The segment-walking logic follows the same head, page array, tail traversal as xdr_process_buf(), but populates a scatterlist directly rather than invoking a per-segment callback. sg_next() traversal makes the walker safe for chained scatterlists. Once subsequent patches reroute all per-message crypto operations through crypto/krb5, xdr_process_buf() loses its last callers and is removed. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Stable-dep-of:18c1cc6988("SUNRPC: Return an error from xdr_buf_to_bvec() on overflow") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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