Re: 4.9.0 regression in pipe-backed iov_iter with systemd-nspawn

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 14 2017 - 19:53:24 EST


On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 01:57:57AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> OK. Let's wait for Alan to confirm that the last variant works and
> I'll send a pull request (with Cc: stable # v4.9).

... and here it is.

The following changes since commit b4b8664d291ac1998e0f0bcdc96b6397f0fe68b3:

arm64: don't pull uaccess.h into *.S (2016-12-26 13:05:17 -0500)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to b9dc6f65bc5e232d1c05fe34b5daadc7e8bbf1fb:

fix a fencepost error in pipe_advance() (2017-01-14 19:50:41 -0500)

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Al Viro (1):
fix a fencepost error in pipe_advance()

Dave Kleikamp (1):
coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files

Gu Zheng (1):
tmpfs: clear S_ISGID when setting posix ACLs

Shaohua Li (1):
aio: fix lock dep warning

fs/aio.c | 6 ++++--
fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 +
fs/coredump.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++
fs/posix_acl.c | 9 ++++----
include/linux/coredump.h | 1 +
lib/iov_iter.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
6 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)