[rds-devel] [PATCH 0/5] RDS rds_iovec fixes
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sat Oct 30 16:34:37 PDT 2010
From: Andy Grover <andy.grover at oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:40:54 -0700
> This patchset includes Linus' rds_iovec overflow fix, as well as making
> a copy of the rds_iovec array to prevent userspace from changing them after
> we've checked them.
>
> Please especially review patch 5. We go from 3 to 2 iovec copies, but it's not
> trivial to go to one, due to some code that wants to preallocate space for SGs.
> Until that code can be changed, patch 5 attempts to safely handle the scenario.
I looked carefully over these and they look ok.
Applied, thanks Andy.
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