On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, given that this is the last user of bvec_last_segment after my > other patches I think we should kill bvec_last_segment and do something > like this here: > > > diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c > index fa37ad52e962..af5e135d2b83 100644 > --- a/fs/buffer.c > +++ b/fs/buffer.c > @@ -2981,6 +2981,14 @@ static void end_bio_bh_io_sync(struct bio *bio) > bio_put(bio); > } > > +static void zero_trailing_sectors(struct bio_vec *bvec, unsigned bytes) > +{ > + unsigned last_page = (bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > + > + zero_user(nth_page(bvec->bv_page, last_page), > + bvec->bv_offset % PAGE_SIZE + bvec->bv_len, bytes); > +} The above 'start' parameter is figured out as wrong, and the computation isn't very obvious, so I'd suggest to keep bvec_last_segment(). Thanks, Ming