Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:16:17 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) |
Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> I don't think that code is reasonably salvageable. Damn.
>
> Hmm. Something like this *may* salvage it.
>
> Untested, so far (I'll reboot and test soon enough), but even if it fixes
> things, it's not really very good.
If that fixes anything:
- The caller is broken because it shouldn't pass a faulting source to copy_to_user()
- And you broken copy_from_user error reporting which shares the same code
-Andi
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