Re: [PATCH net] Fix a potential infinite loop in extract_user_to_sg()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Apr 25 2024 - 11:46:11 EST


On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:39:32 +0100 David Howells wrote:
> Fix extract_user_to_sg() so that it will break out of the loop if
> iov_iter_extract_pages() returns 0 rather than looping around forever.

Is "goto fail" the right way to break out here?
My intuition would be "break".

On a quick read it seems like res = 0 may occur if we run out of
iterator, is passing maxsize > iter->count illegal?