Re: [PATCH] block: Clear kernel memory before copying to user

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:03:41AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:47 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:44:59PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > blk_update_request() may tell us how much progress made, :-)
> >
> > Except when it doesn't, which is 100% of the time for many block
> > drivers, including nvme.
> 
> Please look at blk_mq_end_request()(<- nvme_complete_rq()), which
> calls blk_update_request().

Huh? That just says 100% of the request size was transerred no matter
what was actually transferred.

The protocol doesn't have a way to express what transfer size occured
with a command's completion, and even it did, there's no way I'd trust
every firmware not to screw it.



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