From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0e8f0d67401589a141950856902c7d0ec8d9c985 upstream. ... and actually should just check it's given an iovec-backed iterator in the first place. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/iov_iter.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct io int err; struct iovec v; - if (!(i->type & (ITER_BVEC|ITER_KVEC))) { + if (iter_is_iovec(i)) { iterate_iovec(i, bytes, v, iov, skip, ({ err = fault_in_pages_readable(v.iov_base, v.iov_len); if (unlikely(err))