We don't need it, and if we have it, then the retry handler will attempt to copy the non-existent iovec with the inline iovec, with a segment count that doesn't make sense. Fixes: f67676d160c6 ("io_uring: ensure async punted read/write requests copy iovec") Reported-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 38b54051facd..8321c2f5589b 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -1786,6 +1786,9 @@ static int io_setup_async_rw(struct io_kiocb *req, ssize_t io_size, struct iovec *iovec, struct iovec *fast_iov, struct iov_iter *iter) { + if (req->opcode == IORING_OP_READ_FIXED || + req->opcode == IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED) + return 0; if (!req->io && io_alloc_async_ctx(req)) return -ENOMEM; -- Jens Axboe