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* [PATCH] block: advance iterator after copy-in for SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV
@ 2026-09-29 16:08 TJ Adams
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From: TJ Adams @ 2026-09-29 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe
  Cc: Christian A . Ehrhardt, Christoph Hellwig, linux-block,
	linux-kernel, TJ Adams

When a passthrough request uses transfer direction SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV,
bio_copy_user_iov() sets up a temporary iterator iter2 with
data_source = ITER_SOURCE to copy user data into the bio pages before
execution.

bio_copy_from_iter(bio, &iter2) copies the data and advances iter2, but
the original iter is never advanced. Consequently, iov_iter_count(&i)
remains non-zero in the caller loop in blk_rq_map_user_iov():

	i = *iter;
	do {
		if (copy)
			ret = bio_copy_user_iov(rq, map_data, &i, gfp_mask);
...
	} while (iov_iter_count(&i));

Because i is never advanced, blk_rq_map_user_iov() loops indefinitely,
continually allocating bios and consuming map_data pages until it
exhausts pages and fails with -EINVAL.

Fix this by calling iov_iter_advance(iter, bio->bi_iter.bi_size) in the
map_data && map_data->from_user branch after bio_copy_from_iter().

Fixes: 13f3956eb568 ("block: Fix WARNING in _copy_from_iter")
Signed-off-by: Terrence Adams <tadamsjr@google.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
 block/blk-map.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
index 9cb9605d1f62..2685f6177ceb 100644
--- a/block/blk-map.c
+++ b/block/blk-map.c
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ static int bio_copy_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct rq_map_data *map_data,
 		ret = bio_copy_from_iter(bio, &iter2);
 		if (ret)
 			goto cleanup;
+		iov_iter_advance(iter, bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
 	} else {
 		if (bmd->is_our_pages)
 			zero_fill_bio(bio);
-- 
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog


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