Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 2010 13:13:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] aio: fix the vectored aio routines |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:48:58 -0400 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > It was reported[1] that 32 bit readv and writev AIO operations were > not functioning properly. It turns out that the code to convert the > 32bit io vectors to 64 bits was never written. The results of that > can be pretty bad, but in my testing, it mostly ended up in generating > EFAULT as we walked off the list of I/O vectors provided. > > This patch set fixes the problem in my environment. Comments, as always, > are greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Jeff > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/8/309 > > [PATCH 1/2] compat: factor out compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev > [PATCH 2/2] aio: fix the compat vectored operations
The patches are large(ish) and we're at -rc6. I'm inclined to merge these into 2.6.35-rc1 with a -stable tag so they get backported into 2.6.34.1 after a bit of mainline testing, OK?
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