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Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:19:44 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@....de>,
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Subject: Re: Buggy commit tracked to: "Re: [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move
 rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c"

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 05:40:40PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:35:17PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Wait...
> > readv(2) defines:
> > 	ssize_t readv(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt);
> 
> It doesn't really matter what the manpage says.  What does the AOSP
> libc header say?

FWIW, see https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg147836.html and
subthread from there on...