Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] aio: fix the vectored aio routines | Date | Tue, 04 May 2010 16:16:12 -0400 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 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?
That's fine with me.
Cheers, Jeff
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