[PATCH 4.19 14/44] block/bio: Do not zero user pages

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 11:41:03 EST


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

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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f55adad601c6a97c8c9628195453e0fb23b4a0ae upstream.

We don't need to zero fill the bio if not using kernel allocated pages.

Fixes: f3587d76da05 ("block: Clear kernel memory before copying to user") # v4.20-rc2
Reported-by: Todd Aiken <taiken@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
block/bio.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1262,7 +1262,8 @@ struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct req
if (ret)
goto cleanup;
} else {
- zero_fill_bio(bio);
+ if (bmd->is_our_pages)
+ zero_fill_bio(bio);
iov_iter_advance(iter, bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
}