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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov
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:
>
> > 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?

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