kernel test robot wrote: > [ 9.423019] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 > [ 9.425646] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode > [ 9.427714] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page > [ 9.429851] PGD 80000001fb937067 P4D 80000001fb937067 PUD 1739e1067 PMD 0 > [ 9.432468] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI > [ 9.434064] CPU: 0 PID: 178 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.4.0-rc5-00353-gd60337eff18a3 #1 > [ 9.437139] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 > [ 9.440439] RIP: 0010:iov_iter_get_pages_alloc+0x2a8/0x400 Can you tell me if the following change fixes it for you? --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static size_t copy_page_to_iter_pipe(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t by buf->offset = offset; buf->len = bytes; - pipe->head = i_head; + pipe->head = i_head + 1; i->iov_offset = offset + bytes; i->head = i_head; out: Attached is a test program that can induce some a bug in copy_page_to_iter_pipe() where I forgot to increment the new head when assigning it to pipe->head. David --- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include #include static char buf[256 * 1024] __attribute__((aligned(512))); static char *filename; static int pipe_wfd = -1; static void cleanup(void) { close(pipe_wfd); } static void cleanup_child(void) { int w; wait(&w); } int child(int fd) { ssize_t r; do { r = read(fd, buf, 256 * 1024); if (r == -1) err(1, "read"); } while (r != 0); if (close(fd) == -1) err(1, "close"); return 0; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { ssize_t n; loff_t offset; size_t len; pid_t pid; int fd, pfd[2]; if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Format: %s \n", argv[1]); exit(2); } filename = argv[1]; if (pipe(pfd) == -1) err(1, "pipe"); pipe_wfd = pfd[1]; pid = fork(); switch (pid) { case -1: err(1, "fork"); case 0: close(pfd[1]); return child(pfd[0]); default: close(pfd[0]); atexit(cleanup_child); break; } fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) err(1, "%s", filename); atexit(cleanup); len = 256 * 1024; offset = 0; do { n = splice(fd, &offset, pfd[1], NULL, 256 * 1024, 0); if (n == -1) err(1, "splice"); } while (len -= n, len > 0); if (close(pfd[1]) == -1) err(1, "close/p"); if (close(fd) == -1) err(1, "close/f"); return 0; }