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Commit 403b6fb8 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: convert bio_map_user_iov to use iov_iter_extract_pages


This will pin pages or leave them unaltered rather than getting a ref on
them as appropriate to the iterator.

The pages need to be pinned for DIO rather than having refs taken on them
to prevent VM copy-on-write from malfunctioning during a concurrent fork()
(the result of the I/O could otherwise end up being visible to/affected by
the child process).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522205744.2825689-7-dhowells@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent a7e689dd
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