linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next] iov_iter: use "maxpages" parameter

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Message-ID: <YxneB8I8gydE+8MF@kili>
Date:   Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:20:23 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] iov_iter: use "maxpages" parameter

This was intended to be "maxpages" instead of INT_MAX.  There is only
one caller and it passes INT_MAX so this does not affect runtime.

Fixes: b93235e68921 ("tls: cap the output scatter list to something reasonable")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
I'm not sure which tree this should go through.  It's a cleanup and the
only caller is in networking so probably net-next is easiest.

 include/linux/uio.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index e26908e443d1..47aec904a3eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ iov_iter_npages_cap(struct iov_iter *i, int maxpages, size_t max_bytes)
 		shorted = iov_iter_count(i) - max_bytes;
 		iov_iter_truncate(i, max_bytes);
 	}
-	npages = iov_iter_npages(i, INT_MAX);
+	npages = iov_iter_npages(i, maxpages);
 	if (shorted)
 		iov_iter_reexpand(i, iov_iter_count(i) + shorted);
 
-- 
2.35.1