linux/mm/iov_iter.c
Paul Mackerras bdba73df4a Fix thinko in iov_iter_single_seg_count
commit ad0eab9293 upstream.

The branches of the if (i->type & ITER_BVEC) statement in
iov_iter_single_seg_count() are the wrong way around; if ITER_BVEC is
clear then we use i->bvec, when we should be using i->iov.  This fixes
it.

In my case, the symptom that this caused was that a KVM guest doing
filesystem operations on a virtual disk would result in one of qemu's
threads on the host going into an infinite loop in
generic_perform_write().  The loop would hit the copied == 0 case and
call iov_iter_single_seg_count() to reduce the number of bytes to try
to process, but because of the error, iov_iter_single_seg_count()
would just return i->count and the loop made no progress and continued
forever.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
2014-11-27 11:21:48 +00:00

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