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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: dhowells@redhat.com, pc@manguebit.org
Cc: jlayton@kernel.org, netfs@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+9c058f0d63475adc97fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <Kartikey406@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators
Date: Sat,  7 Mar 2026 14:30:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307090041.359870-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)

When a process crashes and the kernel writes a core dump to a 9P
filesystem, __kernel_write() creates an ITER_KVEC iterator. This
iterator reaches netfs_limit_iter() via netfs_unbuffered_write(), which
only handles ITER_FOLIOQ, ITER_BVEC and ITER_XARRAY iterator types,
hitting the BUG() for any other type.

Fix this by adding netfs_limit_kvec() following the same pattern as
netfs_limit_bvec(), since both kvec and bvec are simple segment arrays
with pointer and length fields. Dispatch it from netfs_limit_iter() when
the iterator type is ITER_KVEC.

Fixes: cae932d3aee5 ("netfs: Add func to calculate pagecount/size-limited span of an iterator")
Reported-by: syzbot+9c058f0d63475adc97fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9c058f0d63475adc97fd
Tested-by: syzbot+9c058f0d63475adc97fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <Kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
 fs/netfs/iterator.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/iterator.c b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
index 72a435e5fc6d..154a14bb2d7f 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/iterator.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
@@ -142,6 +142,47 @@ static size_t netfs_limit_bvec(const struct iov_iter *iter, size_t start_offset,
 	return min(span, max_size);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Select the span of a kvec iterator we're going to use.  Limit it by both
+ * maximum size and maximum number of segments.  Returns the size of the span
+ * in bytes.
+ */
+static size_t netfs_limit_kvec(const struct iov_iter *iter, size_t start_offset,
+			       size_t max_size, size_t max_segs)
+{
+	const struct kvec *kvecs = iter->kvec;
+	unsigned int nkv = iter->nr_segs, ix = 0, nsegs = 0;
+	size_t len, span = 0, n = iter->count;
+	size_t skip = iter->iov_offset + start_offset;
+
+	if (WARN_ON(!iov_iter_is_kvec(iter)) ||
+	    WARN_ON(start_offset > n) ||
+	    n == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	while (n && ix < nkv && skip) {
+		len = kvecs[ix].iov_len;
+		if (skip < len)
+			break;
+		skip -= len;
+		n -= len;
+		ix++;
+	}
+
+	while (n && ix < nkv) {
+		len = min3(n, kvecs[ix].iov_len - skip, max_size);
+		span += len;
+		nsegs++;
+		ix++;
+		if (span >= max_size || nsegs >= max_segs)
+			break;
+		skip = 0;
+		n -= len;
+	}
+
+	return min(span, max_size);
+}
+
 /*
  * Select the span of an xarray iterator we're going to use.  Limit it by both
  * maximum size and maximum number of segments.  It is assumed that segments
@@ -245,6 +286,8 @@ size_t netfs_limit_iter(const struct iov_iter *iter, size_t start_offset,
 		return netfs_limit_bvec(iter, start_offset, max_size, max_segs);
 	if (iov_iter_is_xarray(iter))
 		return netfs_limit_xarray(iter, start_offset, max_size, max_segs);
+	if (iov_iter_is_kvec(iter))
+		return netfs_limit_kvec(iter, start_offset, max_size, max_segs);
 	BUG();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netfs_limit_iter);
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-07  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-07  9:00 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-03-07 13:51 ` [PATCH] netfs: Fix kernel BUG in netfs_limit_iter() for ITER_KVEC iterators David Howells
2026-03-09  9:17 ` Christian Brauner
2026-03-13 15:14 ` Vitaly Chikunov

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