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* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-scatterlist-fix-temp-buffer-in-extract_user_to_sg.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-04-03  6:42 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-04-03  6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, stable, pmladek, kees, dhowells, davidgow, lk, akpm


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: lib/scatterlist: fix temp buffer in extract_user_to_sg()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lib-scatterlist-fix-temp-buffer-in-extract_user_to_sg.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@c--e.de>
Subject: lib/scatterlist: fix temp buffer in extract_user_to_sg()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:49:02 +0100

Instead of allocating a temporary buffer for extracted user pages
extract_user_to_sg() uses the end of the to be filled scatterlist as a
temporary buffer.

Fix the calculation of the start address if the scatterlist already
contains elements.  The unused space starts at sgtable->sgl +
sgtable->nents not directly at sgtable->nents and the temporary buffer is
placed at the end of this unused space.

A subsequent commit will add kunit test cases that demonstrate that the
patch is necessary.

Pointed out by sashiko.dev on a previous iteration of this series.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260326214905.818170-3-lk@c--e.de
Fixes: 018584697533 ("netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist")
Signed-off-by: Christian A. Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[v6.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/scatterlist.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/scatterlist.c~lib-scatterlist-fix-temp-buffer-in-extract_user_to_sg
+++ a/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -1123,8 +1123,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_user_to_sg(struct
 	size_t len, off;
 
 	/* We decant the page list into the tail of the scatterlist */
-	pages = (void *)sgtable->sgl +
-		array_size(sg_max, sizeof(struct scatterlist));
+	pages = (void *)sg + array_size(sg_max, sizeof(struct scatterlist));
 	pages -= sg_max;
 
 	do {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lk@c--e.de are



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