This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring/rw: fix unexpected link breakage to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: io_uring-rw-fix-unexpected-link-breakage.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bf68b5b34311ee57ed40749a1257a30b46127556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:44:39 +0100 Subject: io_uring/rw: fix unexpected link breakage From: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> commit bf68b5b34311ee57ed40749a1257a30b46127556 upstream. req->cqe.res is set in io_read() to the amount of bytes left to be done, which is used to figure out whether to fail a read or not. However, io_read() may do another without returning, and we stash the previous value into ->bytes_done but forget to update cqe.res. Then we ask a read to do strictly less than cqe.res but expect the return to be exactly cqe.res. Fix the bug by updating cqe.res for retries. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-and-Tested-by: Beld Zhang <beldzhang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3a1088440c7be98e5800267af922a67da0ef9f13.1664235732.git.asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -854,6 +854,7 @@ static int io_do_iopoll(struct io_ring_c list_for_each_entry_safe(req, tmp, &ctx->poll_list, list) { struct kiocb *kiocb = &req->rw; + req->cqe.res = iov_iter_count(&s->iter); /* * Move completed entries to our local list. If we find a * request that requires polling, break out and complete Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/io_uring-rw-fix-unexpected-link-breakage.patch