On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 09:45:59AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:03:30 +0800
Jason Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

We want to copy from iov to buf, so the direction was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Why is this included in the series?  Seems like an unrelated fix being
held up within a proposal for a new feature.  Thanks,

Alex

It's better to have it as patch 1/6, but it's a dependency of the
example driver in the series. I can reorder when I apply.

quoted

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
index 08ad0d1f0476..a0a2d74967ef 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c

@@ -852,6 +852,12 @@ static inline int xfer_kern(void *src, void *dst, size_t len)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int kern_xfer(void *dst, void *src, size_t len)
+{
+	memcpy(dst, src, len);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * vringh_init_kern - initialize a vringh for a kernelspace vring.
  * @vrh: the vringh to initialize.

@@ -958,7 +964,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_iov_pull_kern);
 ssize_t vringh_iov_push_kern(struct vringh_kiov *wiov,
 			     const void *src, size_t len)
 {
-	return vringh_iov_xfer(wiov, (void *)src, len, xfer_kern);
+	return vringh_iov_xfer(wiov, (void *)src, len, kern_xfer);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_iov_push_kern);