Need to initialize map_bh.b_state to zero. Otherwise, in case of a faulty
user-buffer its possible to go into dio_zero_block() and submit a page by
mistake - since it checks for buffer_new().
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118551339032528&w=2
akpm: Linus had a (better) patch to just do a kzalloc() in there, but it got
lost. Probably this version is better for -stable anwyay.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Jin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: gurudas pai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
---
fs/direct-io.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index d9d0833..0286993 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
dio->get_block = get_block;
dio->end_io = end_io;
dio->map_bh.b_private = NULL;
+ dio->map_bh.b_state = 0;
dio->final_block_in_bio = -1;
dio->next_block_for_io = -1;
--
1.5.2.5
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