On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 06:19:26PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 05:55:37PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

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IOW, the loop on failure exit should go through the bio, like __bio_unmap_user()
does.  We *also* need to put everything left unused in pages[], but only from the
last iteration through iov_for_each().

Frankly, I would prefer to reuse the pages[], rather than append to it on each
iteration.  Used iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(), actually.

Something like completely untested diff below, perhaps...

+				unsigned n = PAGE_SIZE - offs;
+				unsigned prev_bi_vcnt = bio->bi_vcnt;

Sorry, that should've been followed by
				if (n > bytes)
					n = bytes;

Anyway, a carved-up variant is in vfs.git#work.iov_iter.  It still needs
review and testing; the patch Vitaly has posted in this thread plus 6
followups, hopefully more readable than aggregate diff.

Comments?