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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2014-11-13 20:15:23 +1100 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-11-13 13:28:55 -0500 |
commit | ad0eab9293485d1c06237e9249f6d4dfa3d93d4d (patch) | |
tree | d0153dd69d25cfa259bdadd8b17f79e4d5be7ec5 /Documentation/pnp.txt | |
parent | 7e8631e8b9d4e9f698c09c7e7309c96249180ff9 (diff) |
Fix thinko in iov_iter_single_seg_count
The branches of the if (i->type & ITER_BVEC) statement in
iov_iter_single_seg_count() are the wrong way around; if ITER_BVEC is
clear then we use i->bvec, when we should be using i->iov. This fixes
it.
In my case, the symptom that this caused was that a KVM guest doing
filesystem operations on a virtual disk would result in one of qemu's
threads on the host going into an infinite loop in
generic_perform_write(). The loop would hit the copied == 0 case and
call iov_iter_single_seg_count() to reduce the number of bytes to try
to process, but because of the error, iov_iter_single_seg_count()
would just return i->count and the loop made no progress and continued
forever.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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