linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Convert vmcore to use an iov

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Date:   Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:36:26 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
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-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Convert vmcore to use an iov_iter

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 02:39:24PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> For some reason several people have been sending bad patches to fix
> compiler warnings in vmcore recently.  Here's how it should be done.
> Compile-tested only on x86.  As noted in the first patch, s390 should
> take this conversion a bit further, but I'm not inclined to do that
> work myself.

A couple of notes: please, use iov_iter_count(i) instead of open-coding
i->count.  And there's a preexisting nastiness in read_vmcore() -
generally, a fault halfway through the read() is treated as a short read,
rather than -EFAULT...