netdev - RE: Buggy commit tracked to: "Re: [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov

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Message-ID: <0ab5ac71f28d459db2f350c2e07b88ca@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:06:38 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Greg KH' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     'David Hildenbrand' <david@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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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"

From: 'Greg KH'
> Sent: 23 October 2020 15:47
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 02:39:24PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > From: David Hildenbrand
> > > Sent: 23 October 2020 15:33
> > ...
> > > I just checked against upstream code generated by clang 10 and it
> > > properly discards the upper 32bit via a mov w23 w2.
> > >
> > > So at least clang 10 indeed properly assumes we could have garbage and
> > > masks it off.
> > >
> > > Maybe the issue is somewhere else, unrelated to nr_pages ... or clang 11
> > > behaves differently.
> >
> > We'll need the disassembly from a failing kernel image.
> > It isn't that big to hand annotate.
> 
> I've worked around the merge at the moment in the android tree, but it
> is still quite reproducable, and will try to get a .o file to
> disassemble on Monday or so...

Did this get properly resolved?

	David

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