[PATCH 04/11] iov_iter: Fix potential underflow in iov_iter_extract_xarray_pages()
From: David Howells
Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 10:07:35 EST
In iov_iter_extract_xarray_pages(), if no pages are extracted because
there's a hole (or something otherwise unextractable) in the xarray, then
the calculation of maxsize at the end can go wrong if the starting offset
is not zero.
Fix this by returning 0 in such a case and freeing the page array if
allocated here rather than being passed in.
Note that in the near future, ITER_XARRAY should be removed.
Fixes: 7d58fe731028 ("iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260608145432.681865-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260616100821.2062304-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
lib/iov_iter.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 243662af1af7..1f5685196565 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1568,6 +1568,7 @@ static ssize_t iov_iter_extract_xarray_pages(struct iov_iter *i,
struct folio *folio;
unsigned int nr = 0, offset;
loff_t pos = i->xarray_start + i->iov_offset;
+ bool will_alloc = !*pages;
XA_STATE(xas, i->xarray, pos >> PAGE_SHIFT);
offset = pos & ~PAGE_MASK;
@@ -1595,6 +1596,14 @@ static ssize_t iov_iter_extract_xarray_pages(struct iov_iter *i,
}
rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (!nr) {
+ if (will_alloc) {
+ kfree(*pages);
+ *pages = NULL;
+ }
+ return 0;
+ }
+
maxsize = min_t(size_t, nr * PAGE_SIZE - offset, maxsize);
iov_iter_advance(i, maxsize);
return maxsize;