From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Al Viro <[email protected]>,
Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected],
linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
Palash Oswal <[email protected]>,
Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] iter revert problems
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:13:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On 8/21/21 4:25 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 03:24:28PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 8/12/21 9:40 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> For the bug description see 2/2. As mentioned there the current problems
>>> is because of generic_write_checks(), but there was also a similar case
>>> fixed in 5.12, which should have been triggerable by normal
>>> write(2)/read(2) and others.
>>>
>>> It may be better to enforce reexpands as a long term solution, but for
>>> now this patchset is quickier and easier to backport.
>>
>> We need to do something with this, hopefully soon.
>
> I still don't like that approach ;-/ If anything, I would rather do
> something like this, and to hell with one extra word on stack in
> several functions; at least that way the semantics is easy to describe.
Pavel suggested this very approach initially as well when we discussed
it, and if you're fine with the extra size_t, it is by far the best way
to get this done and not have a wonky/fragile API.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-21 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-12 20:40 [PATCH v2 0/2] iter revert problems Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-12 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] iov_iter: mark truncated iters Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-12 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] io_uring: don't retry with truncated iter Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-16 15:35 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] iter revert problems Jens Axboe
2021-08-21 14:24 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-08-21 22:25 ` Al Viro
2021-08-21 23:13 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-08-23 12:28 ` David Laight
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