it's only used to get to the partial buffer we can add to, and that's always the last one, i.e. pipe->head - 1. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/iov_iter.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c index a507eed67839..4b5a98105547 100644 --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -1220,14 +1220,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_gap_alignment); static inline ssize_t __pipe_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, size_t maxsize, struct page **pages, - int iter_head, size_t off) { struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = i->pipe; ssize_t left = maxsize; if (off) { - struct pipe_buffer *buf = pipe_buf(pipe, iter_head); + struct pipe_buffer *buf = pipe_buf(pipe, pipe->head - 1); get_page(*pages++ = buf->page); left -= PAGE_SIZE - off; @@ -1265,7 +1264,7 @@ static ssize_t pipe_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, npages = pipe_space_for_user(iter_head, i->pipe->tail, i->pipe); capacity = min(npages, maxpages) * PAGE_SIZE - *start; - return __pipe_get_pages(i, min(maxsize, capacity), pages, iter_head, *start); + return __pipe_get_pages(i, min(maxsize, capacity), pages, *start); } static ssize_t iter_xarray_populate_pages(struct page **pages, struct xarray *xa, @@ -1461,7 +1460,7 @@ static ssize_t pipe_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, p = get_pages_array(npages); if (!p) return -ENOMEM; - n = __pipe_get_pages(i, maxsize, p, iter_head, *start); + n = __pipe_get_pages(i, maxsize, p, *start); if (n > 0) *pages = p; else -- 2.30.2