linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom

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Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 01:39:26 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/2] Fix splice from random/urandom

Hi Jens,

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:33:01PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 5/19/22 5:25 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 1:22 AM Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> >> I can certainly do the write side too. To fix this regression, I just
> >> valued doing read_iter first and I'd hate to hold that up to do the
> >> write side too. I'll do the write side later today, but let's keep them
> >> separate.
> > 
> > Excellent, thanks. I plan to queue these up all in a row.
> 
> Built and tested v2, just sent it out. Note that it deviates from your
> proposal a bit since with that we lost the
> 
> if (!len)
> 	break;
> 
> check, which is kind of important if you ever want to be done :-)

Heh, noticed that too, thanks.

> I'll do the write_iter side, but as mentioned, I'd prefer to keep it
> separate from this patchset as this one fixes a real regression that we
> need to get backported too.
 
No problem. Because of all the flux in random.c lately, I've been
preparing a massive backports branch, 2 branches actually, so I'll make
sure this is in there. Backport concern aside, though, I'll look for
your write_iter patch today. Thanks a bunch for doing this.

Jason