scatterlist: make sure sg_miter_next() doesn't return 0 sized mappings
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:10:23 +0000 (22:10 +0900)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:35:09 +0000 (08:35 +0200)
Impact: fix not-so-critical but annoying bug

sg_miter_next() returns 0 sized mapping if there is an zero sized sg
entry in the list or at the end of each iteration.  As the users
always check the ->length field, this bug shouldn't be critical other
than causing unnecessary iteration.

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
lib/scatterlist.c

index b7b449d..a295e40 100644 (file)
@@ -347,9 +347,12 @@ bool sg_miter_next(struct sg_mapping_iter *miter)
        sg_miter_stop(miter);
 
        /* get to the next sg if necessary.  __offset is adjusted by stop */
-       if (miter->__offset == miter->__sg->length && --miter->__nents) {
-               miter->__sg = sg_next(miter->__sg);
-               miter->__offset = 0;
+       while (miter->__offset == miter->__sg->length) {
+               if (--miter->__nents) {
+                       miter->__sg = sg_next(miter->__sg);
+                       miter->__offset = 0;
+               } else
+                       return false;
        }
 
        /* map the next page */