When switching to the new iovec accessors, a negation got subtly dropped, leading to 9p being remarkably broken (here with kvmtool): [ 7.430941] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:15. [ 7.432080] devtmpfs: mounted [ 7.432717] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1344K [ 7.433658] Run /virt/init as init process Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e00902ff000 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e00902fefc0 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e00902ff000 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e008febef80 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e008febf000 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e008febef00 to host Warning: unable to translate guest address 0x7e008febf000 to host [ 7.436376] Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /virt/init failed (error -8). [ 7.437554] CPU: 29 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc8-02267-g00e23707442a #291 [ 7.439006] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 7.439902] Call trace: [ 7.440387] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x148 [ 7.441104] show_stack+0x14/0x20 [ 7.441768] dump_stack+0x90/0xb4 [ 7.442425] panic+0x120/0x27c [ 7.443036] kernel_init+0xa4/0x100 [ 7.443725] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 7.444444] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 7.445391] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 7.446169] CPU features: 0x0,23000438 [ 7.446974] Memory Limit: none [ 7.447645] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /virt/init failed (error -8). ]--- Restoring the missing "!" brings the guest back to life. Fixes: 00e23707442a ("iov_iter: Use accessor function") Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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