Hi Jens,
The patches in this series are what I came up with as the result of
analyzing Alexander Potapenko's report about reading from null_blk.
Please consider these patches for kernel v5.8.
Thanks,
Bart.
Bart Van Assche (5):
block: Fix type of first compat_put_{,u}long() argument
bio.h: Declare the arguments of bio iteration functions const
block: Document the bio_vec properties
block: Fix zero_fill_bio()
null_blk: Zero-initialize read buffers in non-memory-backed mode
block/bio.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
block/ioctl.c | 4 ++--
drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/bio.h | 7 ++++---
include/linux/bvec.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
5 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
