On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 05:31:51PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote: > > > On May 24, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> wrote: > > > > On 05/24/2016 02:25 PM, Matthew McClintock wrote: > >> On May 24, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 05/24/2016 02:13 PM, Matthew McClintock wrote: > >>>> I’m seeing this too, same commit if you want another person to > >>>> test/reproduce. > >>> > >>> If you do a pull today, does that fix your problem? > >> > >> Hmm, no. Which commit am I looking for? I’m on > >> a56f489502e28caac56c8a0735549740f0ae0711 > > > > Commit 84787c572d402644dca4874aba73324d9f8e3948 is working for me. I have a > > fixup in lib/iov_iter.c with a dump_stack() call if the fixup was needed. > > That dump is not triggered. I do not seem to have a56f489502e yet. > > Still seeing the issue on top of tree and the above commit. Re-ran bisection > just to be sure.
Guys, the bug is real and definitely still there. char c; struct iovec v[2] = {{&c, 0}, {&c, 1}}; readv(0, v, 2); will trigger it just fine with stdin on e.g. tty. It needs fixing and I'll post a fix as soon as it gets through the local testing. In the meanwhile, I would like to know what in userland is doing that kind of call - kernel certainly shouldn't end up in an infinite loop on that, but it's bloody odd and I wonder what's going on in userland code to result in that call. Again, I understand what's going on kernel-side; the only tricky part is how to fix it without bringing the nasal daemons back. I think I have a solution and I'm going to post it tonight if it survives the local beating. In any case, the testcase above deserves being added to LTP - it's a real regression.