Re: [PATCH] block: Restore tape support

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On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:08:14PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> According to what I found in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201935 patch "block: Clear
> kernel memory before copying to user" broke tape access. Hence revert
> that patch.

This looks wrong.  The patch from Keith is obviously correct for
normal usage of bio_copy_user_iov.  The SCSI tape drivers use the
somewhat odd null_mapped case, so we probably need to refine the checks
for that a bit.



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