Re: [bug report] regression bisected to "block: Make most scsi_req_init() calls implicit"

From: dann frazier
Date: Mon Oct 23 2017 - 21:48:03 EST


On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 09:41 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
>> (gdb) list *(sg_io+0x120)
>> 0xffff0000084e71a8 is in sg_io (./include/linux/uaccess.h:113).
>> 108 static inline unsigned long
>> 109 _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
>> 110 {
>> 111 unsigned long res = n;
>> 112 might_fault();
>> 113 if (likely(access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n))) {
>> 114 kasan_check_write(to, n);
>> 115 res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
>> 116 }
>> 117 if (unlikely(res))
>
> Hello Dann,
>
> Would it be possible to check whether the patch below is sufficient to fix this?

hey Bart,
Yes, it does appear to be sufficient:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmraid -r -c
ERROR: isw: seeking device "/dev/vda" to 18446744073708843520
ERROR: sil: seeking device "/dev/vda" to 18446744073709401600
no raid disks
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

-dann