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From: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@c--e.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@c--e.de>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Fix length calculation bug in extract_kvec_to_sg
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:23:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323212350.807118-1-lk@c--e.de> (raw)

There is a bug in extract_kvec_to_sg() where the length
of a scatterlist segment is miscalculated. The actual fix
is a one-liner and it is quite obvious from reading the
code that this is what was intened.

As this is a core library function this series first adds
test cases to the kunit_iov_iter test that demonstrate that
there is a bug before actually fixing it in the last commit.

The bug was orignally introduced into kernel v6.3 where the
function lived in fs/netfs/iterator.c. It was later moved
to lib/scatterlist.c in v6.5. Thus the actual fix is only
marked for backports to v6.5+.

Christian A. Ehrhardt (3):
  lib: kunit_iov_iter: Improve error detection
  lib: kunit_iov_iter: Add tests for extract_iter_to_sg
  lib: Fix length calculation in extract_kvec_to_sg

 lib/scatterlist.c          |   2 +-
 lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-23 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-23 21:23 Christian A. Ehrhardt [this message]
2026-03-23 21:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/3] lib: kunit_iov_iter: Improve error detection Christian A. Ehrhardt
2026-03-23 21:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/3] lib: kunit_iov_iter: Add tests for extract_iter_to_sg Christian A. Ehrhardt
2026-03-23 21:23 ` [PATCH RESEND 3/3] lib: Fix length calculation in extract_kvec_to_sg Christian A. Ehrhardt
2026-03-24 19:12   ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-24 19:39     ` Christian A. Ehrhardt
2026-03-24 19:15   ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-24 19:47     ` Christian A. Ehrhardt
2026-03-24 20:08       ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-24  0:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Fix length calculation bug " Josh Law
2026-03-24 16:38   ` Josh Law

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