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Date:   Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:08:22 +1100
From:   Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: WARNING in iov_iter_pipe
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 07:10:21PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 07:16:29PM +1100, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:31:48AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > On Thu 07-11-19 10:54:10, syzbot wrote:
> > > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > > > 
> > > > HEAD commit:    c68c5373 Add linux-next specific files for 20191107
> > > > git tree:       linux-next
> > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13d6bcfce00000
> > > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=742545dcdea21726
> > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=991400e8eba7e00a26e1
> > > > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> > > > syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1529829ae00000
> > > > C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=16a55c0ce00000
> > > > 
> > > > The bug was bisected to:
> > > > 
> > > > commit b1b4705d54abedfd69dcdf42779c521aa1e0fbd3
> > > > Author: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
> > > > Date:   Tue Nov 5 12:01:37 2019 +0000
> > > > 
> > > >     ext4: introduce direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure
> > > 
> > > Hum, interesting and from the first looks the problem looks real.
> > > Deciphered reproducer is:
> > > 
> > > int fd0 = open("./file0", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_DIRECT, 0);
> > > int fd1 = open("./file0, O_RDONLY);
> > > write(fd0, "some_data...", 512);
> > > sendfile(fd0, fd1, NULL, 0x7fffffa7);
> > >   -> this is interesting as it will result in reading data from 'file0' at
> > >      offset X with buffered read and writing them with direct write to
> > >      offset X+512. So this way we'll grow the file up to those ~2GB in
> > >      512-byte chunks.
> > > - not sure if we ever get there but the remainder of the reproducer is:
> > > fd2 = open("./file0", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_NOATIME | O_SYNC, 0);
> > > sendfile(fd2, fd0, NULL, 0xffffffff)
> > >   -> doesn't seem too interesting as fd0 is at EOF so this shouldn't do
> > >      anything.
> > > 
> > > Matthew, can you have a look?
> > 
> > Sorry Jan, I've been crazy busy lately and I'm out at training this
> > week. Let me take a look at this and see whether I can determine
> > what's happening here.
> > 
> 
> FYI, syzbot is still seeing this on linux-next.
> 
> Also, a new thread was started to discuss this:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20191113180032.GB12013@quack2.suse.cz/T/#u
> (Mentioning this in case anyone is following this thread only.)

Understood. I suppose this issue will get some more traction this
week.

/M