Re: Buggy commit tracked to: "Re: [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c"

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:36:40AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> My thinking: if the compiler that calls import_iovec() has garbage in
> the upper 32 bit
> 
> a) gcc will zero it out and not rely on it being zero.
> b) clang will not zero it out, assuming it is zero.
> 
> But
> 
> a) will zero it out when calling the !inlined variant
> b) clang will zero it out when calling the !inlined variant
> 
> When inlining, b) strikes. We access garbage. That would mean that we
> have calling code that's not generated by clang/gcc IIUC.

Most callchains of import_iovec start with the assembly syscall wrappers.



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