[RFC,08/37] iov_iter_advance(): use consistent semantics for move past the end

Commit Message

Al Viro June 6, 2021, 7:10 p.m. UTC

asking to advance by more than we have left in the iov_iter should
move to the very end; it should *not* leave negative i->count and
it should not spew into syslog, etc. - it's a legitimate operation.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
---
 lib/iov_iter.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index a3aabeda945b..bdbe6691457d 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1117,8 +1117,6 @@  static inline void pipe_truncate(struct iov_iter *i)
 static void pipe_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
 {
 	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = i->pipe;
-	if (unlikely(i->count < size))
-		size = i->count;
 	if (size) {
 		struct pipe_buffer *buf;
 		unsigned int p_mask = pipe->ring_size - 1;
@@ -1159,6 +1157,8 @@  static void iov_iter_bvec_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
 
 void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
 {
+	if (unlikely(i->count < size))
+		size = i->count;
 	if (unlikely(iov_iter_is_pipe(i))) {
 		pipe_advance(i, size);
 		return;
@@ -1168,7 +1168,6 @@  void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
 		return;
 	}
 	if (unlikely(iov_iter_is_xarray(i))) {
-		size = min(size, i->count);
 		i->iov_offset += size;
 		i->count -= size;
 		return;