linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 01/19] iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_get_pages{,

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Date:   Thu, 9 Sep 2021 12:09:59 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/19] iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_get_pages{,_alloc} page
 fault return value

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:49:08PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Both iov_iter_get_pages and iov_iter_get_pages_alloc return the number
> of bytes of the iovec they could get the pages for.  When they cannot
> get any pages, they're supposed to return 0, but when the start of the
> iovec isn't page aligned, the calculation goes wrong and they return a
> negative value.  Fix both functions.
> 
> In addition, change iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to return NULL in that case
> to prevent resource leaks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>