Al Viro
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commitc3497fd009upstream. Unlike other copying operations on ITER_PIPE, copy_mc_to_iter() can result in a short copy. In that case we need to trim the unused buffers, as well as the length of partially filled one - it's not enough to set ->head, ->iov_offset and ->count to reflect how much had we copied. Not hard to fix, fortunately... I'd put a helper (pipe_discard_from(pipe, head)) into pipe_fs_i.h, rather than iov_iter.c - it has nothing to do with iov_iter and having it will allow us to avoid an ugly kludge in fs/splice.c. We could put it into lib/iov_iter.c for now and move it later, but I don't see the point going that way... Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.19+ Fixes:ca146f6f09"lib/iov_iter: Fix pipe handling in _copy_to_iter_mcsafe()" Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.