Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] netfs, cifs: Delegate high-level I/O to netfslib

[David Howells]

David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't suppose you can tell me what line smb2_readv_callback+0x50f/0x5b0 is?

It's almost certainly the iov_iter_revert() here:

	switch (mid->mid_state) {
	case MID_RESPONSE_RECEIVED:
		credits.value = le16_to_cpu(shdr->CreditRequest);
		credits.instance = server->reconnect_instance;
		/* result already set, check signature */
		if (server->sign && !mid->decrypted) {
			int rc;

			iov_iter_revert(&rqst.rq_iter, rdata->got_bytes);
			iov_iter_truncate(&rqst.rq_iter, rdata->got_bytes);

The reason that the:

	[  228.573737] kernel BUG at lib/iov_iter.c:582!

happens is that we're trying to wind the iterator back before its start point.

Now, the iterator is reinitialised at the beginning of the function:

	if (rdata->got_bytes) {
		rqst.rq_iter	  = rdata->subreq.io_iter;
		rqst.rq_iter_size = iov_iter_count(&rdata->subreq.io_iter);
	}

so the reversion is probably unnecessary.

Note that this can only happen if we're using signed messages:

		if (server->sign && !mid->decrypted) {

as we wind back the iterator so that we can use it to feed the buffer to the
hashing algorithm.

David