On 05/25/2016 01:24 AM, Al Viro wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:41:33AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
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.

FWIW, the reproducer is
#include <sys/uio.>
main()
{
        char c;
        struct iovec v[2] = {{&c,0},{&c,1}};
        readv(0, v, 2);
}
ran with stdin from tty.  Fix for that is simply

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 28cb431..0cd5227 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
  #define iterate_and_advance(i, n, v, I, B, K) {                       \
        if (unlikely(i->count < n))                               \
                n = i->count;                                        \
-       if (n) {                                                \
+       if (i->count) {                                              \
                size_t skip = i->iov_offset;                 \
                if (unlikely(i->type & ITER_BVEC)) {             \
                        const struct bio_vec *bvec;             \

Could you see if your reproducer is fixed by that?

Yes, that change fixes my reproducer. If this is the final fix, you may add a Tested-by: to the commit.

Larry



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