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commit 15261b9126cd5bb2ad8521da49d8f5c042d904c7 upstream. Olga K. observed that rpcrdma_marsh_req() allocates sparse pages only when it has determined that a Reply chunk is necessary. There are plenty of cases where no Reply chunk is needed, but the XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES flag is set. The result would be a crash in rpcrdma_inline_fixup() when it tries to copy parts of the received Reply into a missing page. To avoid crashing, handle sparse page allocation up front. Until XATTR support was added, this issue did not appear often because the only SPARSE_PAGES consumer always expected a reply large enough to always require a Reply chunk. Reported-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.
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.