The quilt patch titled Subject: lib/iov_iter: fix import_iovec_ubuf iovec management has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lib-iov_iter-fix-import_iovec_ubuf-iovec-management.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------ From: Pavel Begunkov asml.silence@gmail.com Subject: lib/iov_iter: fix import_iovec_ubuf iovec management Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:13:15 +0000

import_iovec() says that it should always be fine to kfree the iovec returned in @iovp regardless of the error code. __import_iovec_ubuf() never reallocates it and thus should clear the pointer even in cases when copy_iovec_*() fail.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/378ae26923ffc20fd5e41b4360d673bf47b1775b.173833246... Fixes: 3b2deb0e46da ("iov_iter: import single vector iovecs as ITER_UBUF") Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov asml.silence@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

lib/iov_iter.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/iov_iter.c~lib-iov_iter-fix-import_iovec_ubuf-iovec-management +++ a/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -1428,6 +1428,8 @@ static ssize_t __import_iovec_ubuf(int t struct iovec *iov = *iovp; ssize_t ret;

+ *iovp = NULL; + if (compat) ret = copy_compat_iovec_from_user(iov, uvec, 1); else @@ -1438,7 +1440,6 @@ static ssize_t __import_iovec_ubuf(int t ret = import_ubuf(type, iov->iov_base, iov->iov_len, i); if (unlikely(ret)) return ret; - *iovp = NULL; return i->count; }

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