Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-23

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] iter revert problems

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: 2021-08-16 15:35:19
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On 8/12/21 2:40 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
For the bug description see 2/2. As mentioned there the current problems
is because of generic_write_checks(), but there was also a similar case
fixed in 5.12, which should have been triggerable by normal
write(2)/read(2) and others.

It may be better to enforce reexpands as a long term solution, but for
now this patchset is quickier and easier to backport.

v2: don't fail it has been justly fully reverted
Al, what do you think of this approach? It'll fix the issue, but might be
cleaner to have iov->truncated actually track the truncated size. That'd
make it a more complete solution, at the expense of bloat iov_iter which
this version will not.

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Jens Axboe
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