[Question] Editing a bio write request

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I'm writing a device-mapper which has to edit incoming writes, for
example: Incoming bio request contains a biovec with a page full of 0
bytes, and I want to change it to all 0xFF bytes.

I tried using bvec_kmap_local() to get the page address, to then read
the data and if needed adjust it using memcpy or similar. Initial
tests seemed to work, but if I execute things like mkfs on the created
dm, I get a lot of segmentation faults. I narrowed down the problem
that this only happens if I actually write something to the mapped
page. However, I see no reason why it should cause this fault as I
(after checking probably 100 times) don't access invalid memory. I'm
wondering whether my method of editing the write is actually correct,
or if I am doing something else very stupid.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks!

Cheers, Jasper



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