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There have been several bugs over the years where the NFSD splice actor has attempted to write outside the rq_pages array. This is a "should never happen" condition, but if for some reason the pipe splice actor should attempt to walk past the end of rq_pages, it needs to terminate the READ operation to prevent corruption of the pointer addresses in the fields just beyond the array. A server crash is thus prevented. Since the code is not behaving, the READ operation returns -EIO to the client. None of the READ payload data can be trusted if the splice actor isn't operating as expected. Suggested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.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.