[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v7 01/19] iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_get_pages{, _alloc} page fault return value

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:49:08PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Both iov_iter_get_pages and iov_iter_get_pages_alloc return the number
> of bytes of the iovec they could get the pages for.  When they cannot
> get any pages, they're supposed to return 0, but when the start of the
> iovec isn't page aligned, the calculation goes wrong and they return a
> negative value.  Fix both functions.
> 
> In addition, change iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to return NULL in that case
> to prevent resource leaks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba at redhat.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>