Re: [PATCH 2/2] io_uring/kbuf: fix infinite loop in io_kbuf_inc_commit()

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 8/27/25 8:49 PM, Qingyue Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:08:05 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I don't think there's anything wrong with the looping and stopping at
>> the other end is of course a safe guard, but couldn't we just abort the
>> loop if we see a 0 sized buffer? At that point we know the buffer is
>> invalid, or the kernel is buggy, and it'd be saner to stop at that
>> point. Something ala:
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
>> index 394037d3f2f6..19a8bde5e1e1 100644
>> --- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
>> +++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
>> @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ static bool io_kbuf_inc_commit(struct io_buffer_list *bl, int len)
>>  		buf_len = READ_ONCE(buf->len);
>>  		this_len = min_t(u32, len, buf_len);
>>  		buf_len -= this_len;
>> -		if (buf_len) {
>> +		/* Stop looping for invalid buffer length of 0 */
>> +		if (buf_len || !this_len) {
>>  			buf->addr += this_len;
>>  			buf->len = buf_len;
>>  			return false;
> 
> Good idea, it looks nice to me.

I'll send it out, I amended the commit message a bit too.

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Jens Axboe