bvec/iter: disallow zero-length segment bvecs

zero-length bvec segments are allowed in general, but not handled by bio
and down the block layer so filtered out. This inconsistency may be
confusing and prevent from optimisations. As zero-length segments are
useless and places that were generating them are patched, declare them
not allowed.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/Documentation/block/biovecs.rst b/Documentation/block/biovecs.rst
index 36771a1..ddb867e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/block/biovecs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/biovecs.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ normal code doesn't have to deal with bi_bvec_done.
    There is a lower level advance function - bvec_iter_advance() - which takes
    a pointer to a biovec, not a bio; this is used by the bio integrity code.
 
+As of 5.12 bvec segments with zero bv_len are not supported.
+
 What's all this get us?
 =======================
 

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 867036a..c722d94 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -865,3 +865,10 @@ no matter what.  Everything is handled by the caller.
 
 clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of
 its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before
+passed on to an iterator.

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index a21e6a5..6c597cd 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@
        __start.bi_bvec_done = skip;                    \
        __start.bi_idx = 0;                             \
        for_each_bvec(__v, i->bvec, __bi, __start) {    \
-               if (!__v.bv_len)                        \
-                       continue;                       \
                (void)(STEP);                           \
        }                                               \
 }