[v2 PATCH] lib/mpi: Fix buffer overrun when SG is too long

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:53:29PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> That's fine, I guess.  One quirk of the above approach is that if the last
> needed element of the scatterlist has a lot of extra pages, this will iterate
> through all those extra pages, processing 0 bytes from each.  It could just stop
> when done.  I suppose it's not worth worrying about that case, though.

Ideally this should be handled in the sg_miter interface, IOW,
it should allow us to cap the SG list at a certain number of bytes
as opposed to a certain number of entries.

Cheers,
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