This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fix iov_iter_fault_in_readable()
to the 4.4-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:
fix-iov_iter_fault_in_readable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d4690f1e1cdabb4d61207b6787b1605a0dc0aeab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:11:45 +0100
Subject: fix iov_iter_fault_in_readable()
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit d4690f1e1cdabb4d61207b6787b1605a0dc0aeab upstream.
... by turning it into what used to be multipages counterpart
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/uio.h | 2 +-
lib/iov_iter.c | 24 ++----------------------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(st
struct iov_iter *i, unsigned long offset, size_t bytes);
void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
-int iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
+#define iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable iov_iter_fault_in_readable
size_t iov_iter_single_seg_count(const struct iov_iter *i);
size_t copy_page_to_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes,
struct iov_iter *i);
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -298,33 +298,13 @@ done:
}
/*
- * Fault in the first iovec of the given iov_iter, to a maximum length
- * of bytes. Returns 0 on success, or non-zero if the memory could not be
- * accessed (ie. because it is an invalid address).
- *
- * writev-intensive code may want this to prefault several iovecs -- that
- * would be possible (callers must not rely on the fact that _only_ the
- * first iovec will be faulted with the current implementation).
- */
-int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
-{
- if (!(i->type & (ITER_BVEC|ITER_KVEC))) {
- char __user *buf = i->iov->iov_base + i->iov_offset;
- bytes = min(bytes, i->iov->iov_len - i->iov_offset);
- return fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
- }
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_fault_in_readable);
-
-/*
* Fault in one or more iovecs of the given iov_iter, to a maximum length of
* bytes. For each iovec, fault in each page that constitutes the iovec.
*
* Return 0 on success, or non-zero if the memory could not be accessed (i.e.
* because it is an invalid address).
*/
-int iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
+int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
{
size_t skip = i->iov_offset;
const struct iovec *iov;
@@ -341,7 +321,7 @@ int iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readabl
}
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_fault_in_readable);
void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, int direction,
const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/arc-uaccess-get_user-to-zero-out-dest-in-cause-of-fault.patch
queue-4.4/fix-minor-infoleak-in-get_user_ex.patch
queue-4.4/fix-iov_iter_fault_in_readable.patch
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