Re: fs: out of bounds on stack in iov_iter_advance

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Tue, Nov 10 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Al, ping?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> How are we going to handle that one?  I can put it into mainline pull
> >> request via vfs.git, with Cc: stable, but if e.g. Jens prefers to take it
> >> via the block tree, I'll be glad to leave it for him to deal with.
> >
> > Put it in the vfs tree (I'm hoping for a pull request soon..)
> >
> > I pulled the block trees from Jens yesterday, so there is presumably
> > nothing pending there right now.
> 
> Apparently my "hoping for a pull request soon" was ridiculously optimistic.
> 
> Al, looking at the most recent linux-next, most of the vfs commits
> there seem to be committed in the last day or two. I'm getting the
> feeling that that is all 4.5 material by now.
> 
> Should I just take the iov patch as-is, since apparently no vfs pull
> request is happening this merge cycle? And no, I'm not taking
> "developed during the second week of the merge window, and sent in the
> last few days of it". I'm done with that.

I've got 8 other patches pending for a post core merge, just waiting for
the last core pull request to go in. I haven't seen this iov iter fix,
though.



  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-linus


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Jan Kara (1):
      brd: Refuse improperly aligned discard requests

Jens Axboe (2):
      MAINTAINERS: add reference to new linux-block list
      blk-mq: mark __blk_mq_complete_request() static

Randy Dunlap (1):
      block: fix blk-core.c kernel-doc warning

Sathyavathi M (1):
      NVMe: Increase the max transfer size when mdts is 0

Stephan Günther (2):
      NVMe: use split lo_hi_{read,write}q
      NVMe: add support for Apple NVMe controller

Vivek Goyal (1):
      fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN_ON() when inode writeback fails

 MAINTAINERS             |  1 +
 block/blk-core.c        |  3 +++
 block/blk-mq.c          |  2 +-
 block/blk-mq.h          |  1 -
 drivers/block/brd.c     |  3 +++
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 15 +++++++++------
 fs/block_dev.c          | 15 ++++++++++++---
 7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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Jens Axboe