Re: [PATCH] block: fix a crash when bio_for_each_folio_all iterates over an empty bio

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 08:32:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 03:11:57PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > If we use bio_for_each_folio_all on an empty bio, it will access the first
> > bio vector unconditionally (it is uninitialized) and it may crash
> > depending on the uninitialized data.
> 
> Wait, how do we have an empty bio in the first place?

flush bios are always empty.  Not sure iterating over them makes much
sense, though.



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