From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCAAC5CFFE for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F49120870 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:17:32 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 3F49120870 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727150AbeLJLRb (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:17:31 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:48268 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726555AbeLJLRb (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:17:31 -0500 Received: by newverein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id C2BBE6732D; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:17:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:17:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Todd Aiken , Keith Busch , Laurence Oberman , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Restore tape support Message-ID: <20181210111729.GA21553@lst.de> References: <20181210030814.13235-1-bvanassche@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181210030814.13235-1-bvanassche@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:08:14PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > According to what I found in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201935 patch "block: Clear > kernel memory before copying to user" broke tape access. Hence revert > that patch. This looks wrong. The patch from Keith is obviously correct for normal usage of bio_copy_user_iov. The SCSI tape drivers use the somewhat odd null_mapped case, so we probably need to refine the checks for that a bit.