[PATCH 3.12 001/170] Revert "aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10"

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Jul 18 2014 - 09:10:17 EST


3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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This reverts commit 0e2e24e5dc6eb6f0698e9dc97e652f132b885624, which
was applied twice mistakenly. The first one is
bee3f7b8188d4b2a5dfaeb2eb4a68d99f67daecf.

Reported-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 0abde33de70e..e609e15f36b9 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1066,9 +1066,6 @@ static long aio_read_events_ring(struct kioctx *ctx,
head %= ctx->nr_events;
tail %= ctx->nr_events;

- head %= ctx->nr_events;
- tail %= ctx->nr_events;
-
while (ret < nr) {
long avail;
struct io_event *ev;
--
2.0.0

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