linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read

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Message-ID: <20201114070025.GO3576660@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 14 Nov 2020 07:00:25 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:19:34PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

> Assuming so, I have attached the output both with and without the
> WARN_ON. Looks like mountinfo is what is causing the error?

Cute...  FWIW, on #origin + that commit with fix folded in I don't
see anything unusual in reads from mountinfo ;-/  OTOH, they'd
obviously been... creative with readv(2) arguments, so it would
be very interesting to see what it is they are passing to it.

I'm half-asleep right now; will try to cook something to gather
that information tomorrow morning.  'Later...