The text below is an excerpt of  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142132

Description of problem:

Virtual machines that boots from nfs mounted qcow2 images fails to boot when
the nfs server runs kernel 6.0.5

The erros are often

   Booting from Hard Disk...
   GRUB loading.
   Welcome to GRUB!

   error ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:ELF header smaller than expected.
   Entering rescue mode...
   grub rescue>
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

   qemu-6.2.0-16.fc36.x86_64
   kernel-6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64

How reproducible:

   always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run a virtual machine with boot disk qcow2 formatted mounted from an nfs server
    running kernel-6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64

Actual results:

Machine fails to boot

Expected results:

Clean boot

Additional info:

Git repo is linux-stable

A git bisect lands me at 310d9d5a5009a93377200b98daa2d84aa2bd8160

So commit 746de1f86fcd works

But cherry picking f0f6b614f83d 310d9d5a5009 bfbfb6182ad1 on top of 746de1f86fcd is broken.

The bfbfb6182ad1 is picked due to the commit comment

commit bfbfb6182ad1d7d184b16f25165faad879147f79
Author: Al Viro [off-list ref]
Date:   Sat Sep 10 22:14:02 2022 +0100

     nfsd_splice_actor(): handle compound pages
     
     pipe_buffer might refer to a compound page (and contain more than a PAGE_SIZE
     worth of data).  Theoretically it had been possible since way back, but
     nfsd_splice_actor() hadn't run into that until copy_page_to_iter() change.
     Fortunately, the only thing that changes for compound pages is that we
     need to stuff each relevant subpage in and convert the offset into offset
     in the first subpage.
     
     Acked-by: Chuck Lever [off-list ref]
     Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington [off-list ref]
     Fixes: f0f6b614f83d "copy_page_to_iter(): don't split high-order page in case of ITER_PIPE"
     Signed-off-by: Al Viro [off-list ref]

The bisect I did:

git bisect start
# status: waiting for both good and bad commits
# bad: [3829606fc5dffeccdf80aebeed3aa75255257f35] Linux 6.0.5
git bisect bad 3829606fc5dffeccdf80aebeed3aa75255257f35
# status: waiting for good commit(s), bad commit known
# good: [0b0649b1d27a768d37f23acf4d88e6e90cca7856] Linux 5.19.4
git bisect good 0b0649b1d27a768d37f23acf4d88e6e90cca7856
# good: [0b0649b1d27a768d37f23acf4d88e6e90cca7856] Linux 5.19.4
git bisect good 0b0649b1d27a768d37f23acf4d88e6e90cca7856
# good: [3d7cb6b04c3f3115719235cc6866b10326de34cd] Linux 5.19
git bisect good 3d7cb6b04c3f3115719235cc6866b10326de34cd
# good: [7c5c3a6177fa9646884114fc7f2e970b0bc50dc9] Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
git bisect good 7c5c3a6177fa9646884114fc7f2e970b0bc50dc9
# bad: [eeac7730418563152b0e3172bce9bac4ff6d6bc4] perf pmu-events: Avoid passing pmu_events_map
git bisect bad eeac7730418563152b0e3172bce9bac4ff6d6bc4
# good: [f20c95b46b8fa3ad34b3ea2e134337f88591468b] Merge tag 'tpmdd-next-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd
git bisect good f20c95b46b8fa3ad34b3ea2e134337f88591468b
# good: [c993e07be023acdeec8e84e2e0743c52adb5fc94] Merge tag 'dma-mapping-5.20-2022-08-06' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping
git bisect good c993e07be023acdeec8e84e2e0743c52adb5fc94
# good: [e2ebff9c57fe4eb104ce4768f6ebcccf76bef849] vfs: Check the truncate maximum size in inode_newsize_ok()
git bisect good e2ebff9c57fe4eb104ce4768f6ebcccf76bef849
# good: [c8a684e2e110376c58f0bfa30fb3855d1e319670] Merge tag 'leds-5.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pavel/linux-leds
git bisect good c8a684e2e110376c58f0bfa30fb3855d1e319670
# good: [c72687614b3627b3ea55d8d169e31cac70f56f3e] Merge tag 'rpmsg-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/remoteproc/linux
git bisect good c72687614b3627b3ea55d8d169e31cac70f56f3e
# bad: [f30adc0d332fdfe5315cb98bd6a7ff0d5cf2aa38] Merge tag 'pull-work.iov_iter-rebased' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
git bisect bad f30adc0d332fdfe5315cb98bd6a7ff0d5cf2aa38
# good: [60349fd52ecbb8b14545ff25aba2f2e230c4d618] remoteproc: using pm_runtime_resume_and_get instead of pm_runtime_get_sync
git bisect good 60349fd52ecbb8b14545ff25aba2f2e230c4d618
# good: [8520008417c581c4c22e39597f92b9814ae34c31] fold __pipe_get_pages() into pipe_get_pages()
git bisect good 8520008417c581c4c22e39597f92b9814ae34c31
# good: [746de1f86fcd33464acac047f111eea877f2f7a0] pipe_get_pages(): switch to append_pipe()
git bisect good 746de1f86fcd33464acac047f111eea877f2f7a0
# good: [5d5d353bed32dc3ea52e2619e0d1c60b17133b91] Merge tag 'rproc-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/remoteproc/linux
git bisect good 5d5d353bed32dc3ea52e2619e0d1c60b17133b91
# bad: [f0f6b614f83dbae99d283b7b12ab5dd2e04df979] copy_page_to_iter(): don't split high-order page in case of ITER_PIPE
git bisect bad f0f6b614f83dbae99d283b7b12ab5dd2e04df979
# bad: [310d9d5a5009a93377200b98daa2d84aa2bd8160] expand those iov_iter_advance()...
git bisect bad 310d9d5a5009a93377200b98daa2d84aa2bd8160
# first bad commit: [310d9d5a5009a93377200b98daa2d84aa2bd8160] expand those iov_iter_advance()...


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