On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:34:02AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Could you try to reproduce it with this:
>
> dax_io(): don't let non-error value escape via retval instead of EFAULT
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> index a86d3cc..7b653e9 100644
> --- a/fs/dax.c
> +++ b/fs/dax.c
> @@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct
> iov_iter *iter,
> else
> len = iov_iter_zero(max - pos, iter);
>
> - if (!len)
> + if (!len) {
> + retval = -EFAULT;
> break;
> + }
>
> pos += len;
> addr += len;
>
PS: "block, dax: fix lifetime of in-kernel dax mappings with dax_map_atomic()"
Dan Williams had posted a while ago does change the things a bit, but
AFAICS only in turning "return a bogus positive value" into "return an
uninitialized value"; if applying that one after it, s/retval/rc/ in
the above. And whether it fixes the bug Sasha had been able to trigger,
the bug is real and needs fixing - it's been there since 4.0 when fs/dax.c
went into the tree.
How are we going to handle that one? I can put it into mainline pull
request via vfs.git, with Cc: stable, but if e.g. Jens prefers to take it
via the block tree, I'll be glad to leave it for him to deal with.
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