2015-11-10 14:41:53

by Miklos Szeredi

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fuse: break infinite loop in fuse_fill_write_pages()

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got a report about unkillable task eating CPU. Further
> investigation shows, that the problem is in the fuse_fill_write_pages()
> function. If iov's first segment has zero length, we get an infinite
> loop, because we never reach iov_iter_advance() call.
>
> Fix this by calling iov_iter_advance() before repeating an attempt to
> copy data from userspace.

Thanks, queued in

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Miklos