linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmcore: Convert __read_vmcore to use an iov

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Message-ID: <20211213080031.GB20986@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:00:31 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmcore: Convert __read_vmcore to use an iov_iter

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:06:35AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> +	/* trim iter to not go beyond EOF */
> +	if (iter->count > vmcore_size - *fpos)
> +		iter->count = vmcore_size - *fpos;

Nit: iov_iter_truncate()

Otherwise this looks good from a cursory view.