Go to file
David Howells 9d1be4f4dc afs: Don't unlock fetched data pages until the op completes successfully
Don't call req->page_done() on each page as we finish filling it with
the data coming from the network.  Whilst this might speed up the
application a bit, it's a problem if there's a network failure and the
operation has to be reissued.

If this happens, an oops occurs because afs_readpages_page_done() clears
the pointer to each page it unlocks and when a retry happens, the
pointers to the pages it wants to fill are now NULL (and the pages have
been unlocked anyway).

Instead, wait till the operation completes successfully and only then
release all the pages after clearing any terminal gap (the server can
give us less data than we requested as we're allowed to ask for more
than is available).

KASAN produces a bug like the following, and even without KASAN, it can
oops and panic.

    BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in _copy_to_iter+0x323/0x5f4
    Write of size 1404 at addr 0005088000000000 by task md5sum/5235

    CPU: 0 PID: 5235 Comm: md5sum Not tainted 5.7.0-rc3-fscache+ #250
    Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
    Call Trace:
     memcpy+0x39/0x58
     _copy_to_iter+0x323/0x5f4
     __skb_datagram_iter+0x89/0x2a6
     skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x129/0x135
     rxrpc_recvmsg_data.isra.0+0x615/0xd42
     rxrpc_kernel_recv_data+0x1e9/0x3ae
     afs_extract_data+0x139/0x33a
     yfs_deliver_fs_fetch_data64+0x47a/0x91b
     afs_deliver_to_call+0x304/0x709
     afs_wait_for_call_to_complete+0x1cc/0x4ad
     yfs_fs_fetch_data+0x279/0x288
     afs_fetch_data+0x1e1/0x38d
     afs_readpages+0x593/0x72e
     read_pages+0xf5/0x21e
     __do_page_cache_readahead+0x128/0x23f
     ondemand_readahead+0x36e/0x37f
     generic_file_buffered_read+0x234/0x680
     new_sync_read+0x109/0x17e
     vfs_read+0xe6/0x138
     ksys_read+0xd8/0x14d
     do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x8a
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3

Fixes: 196ee9cd2d ("afs: Make afs_fs_fetch_data() take a list of pages")
Fixes: 30062bd13e ("afs: Implement YFS support in the fs client")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-05-18 10:29:17 -07:00
arch A single bugfix for the ORC unwinder to ensure that the error flag which 2020-05-17 12:20:14 -07:00
block bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name 2020-05-09 16:07:39 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-09 15:58:04 -07:00
Documentation USB fixes for 5.7-rc6 2020-05-17 12:31:22 -07:00
drivers Convert i2c_new_device() to i2c_new_client_device() 2020-05-17 16:07:30 -07:00
fs afs: Don't unlock fetched data pages until the op completes successfully 2020-05-18 10:29:17 -07:00
include USB fixes for 5.7-rc6 2020-05-17 12:31:22 -07:00
init A single fix for early boot crashes of kernels built with gcc10 and 2020-05-17 11:08:29 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm kasan: add missing functions declarations to kasan.h 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 5.7 2020-05-15 14:03:13 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
scripts scripts/gdb: repair rb_first() and rb_last() 2020-05-07 19:27:20 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200430 2020-04-30 16:35:45 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc6 2020-05-15 10:06:49 -07:00
tools A new testcase for guest debugging (gdbstub) that exposed a bunch of 2020-05-16 13:39:22 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Introduce kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() 2020-05-08 07:44:32 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Add Sedat Dilek (replacement for expired email address) 2020-04-11 09:28:34 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc6 2020-05-17 16:48:37 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.