linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 07/37] [xarray] iov_iter_fault_in_readable() should do nothing in xarray case

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Date:   Sun,  6 Jun 2021 19:10:21 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 07/37] [xarray] iov_iter_fault_in_readable() should do nothing in xarray case

... and actually should just check it's given an iovec-backed iterator
in the first place.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 lib/iov_iter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index c8877cffb7bc..a3aabeda945b 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
 	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))
-- 
2.11.0