Re: [PATCH v7 01/19] iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_get_pages{,_alloc} page fault return value

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 07:11:47 EST


On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:49:08PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Both iov_iter_get_pages and iov_iter_get_pages_alloc return the number
> of bytes of the iovec they could get the pages for. When they cannot
> get any pages, they're supposed to return 0, but when the start of the
> iovec isn't page aligned, the calculation goes wrong and they return a
> negative value. Fix both functions.
>
> In addition, change iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to return NULL in that case
> to prevent resource leaks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>