Re: [patch] iov_iter_advance fix

[Kevin Coffman]

Thanks Nick,

I've verified this fixes the problem I was seeing.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  iov_iter_advance skips over zero-length iovecs, however it does not properly
>  terminate at the end of the iovec array. Fix this by checking against
>  i->count before we skip a zero-length iov.
>
>  The bug was reproduced with a test program that continually randomly creates
>  iovs to writev. The fix was also verified with the same program and also it
>  could verify that the correct data was contained in the file after each
>  writev.
>
>  2.6.25 and 2.6.24.stable requires this fix.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
>  Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Tested-by: Kevin Coffman <kwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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