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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bart.vanassche@wdc.com, dvyukov@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:50:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0241d415-dc04-110a-771f-c245d963fec0@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180114220048.8114-1-dgilbert@interlog.com>

On 1/14/18 3:00 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> During stress tests by syzkaller on the sg driver the block layer
> infrequently returns EINVAL. Closer inspection shows the block
> layer was trying to return ENOMEM (which is much more
> understandable) but for some reason overroad that useful error.
> 
> Patch below does not show this (unchanged) line:
>    ret =__blk_rq_map_user_iov(rq, map_data, &i, gfp_mask, copy);
> That 'ret' was being overridden when that function failed.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-15 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-14 22:00 [PATCH] blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override Douglas Gilbert
2018-01-15 15:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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