Question: how to handle too big f_pos Re: [PATCH] devmem: handlepartial kmem write/read

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

I'm writing a patch against /dev/kmem...I found a problem.

/dev/kmem (and /proc/<pid>/mem) puts virtual addres to f->f_pos.

And, f->f_pos is loff_t .... signed value (not unsigned)

Then, this check
rw_verify_area(READ, file, pos, count);
=>
        pos = *ppos;
        if (unlikely((pos < 0) || (loff_t) (pos + count) < 0))
                return retval;
	
always returns -EINVAL when I read /dev/kmem's valid address.

Then, how should I do for read /dev/kmem ? Any idea ?
(Added Al Viro to CC:)

What I'm really afraid of is /proc/<pid>/mem. IIUC, it's used by gdb to snoop
memory, (for example, at gcore).
I think gdb uses ptrace if it fails to read /proc/<pid>/mem but...it's deadly
slow.

Thanks,
-Kame

p.s. no problems in /proc/kcore..its offset is not bare addresss.





On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:29:01 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Current vwrite silently ignores vwrite() to vmap holes.
> Better behavior should be stop the write and return
> on such holes.
> 
> Also return on partial read, which may happen in future
> (eg. hit hwpoison pages).
> 
> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/mem.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-mm.orig/drivers/char/mem.c	2009-09-14 10:59:50.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-mm/drivers/char/mem.c	2009-09-14 11:06:25.000000000 +0800
> @@ -444,18 +444,22 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *fi
>  		if (!kbuf)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		while (count > 0) {
> +			unsigned long n;
> +
>  			sz = size_inside_page(p, count);
> -			sz = vread(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
> -			if (!sz)
> +			n = vread(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
> +			if (!n)
>  				break;
> -			if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, sz)) {
> +			if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, n)) {
>  				free_page((unsigned long)kbuf);
>  				return -EFAULT;
>  			}
> -			count -= sz;
> -			buf += sz;
> -			read += sz;
> -			p += sz;
> +			count -= n;
> +			buf += n;
> +			read += n;
> +			p += n;
> +			if (n < sz)
> +				break;
>  		}
>  		free_page((unsigned long)kbuf);
>  	}
> @@ -551,11 +555,13 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file * 
>  				free_page((unsigned long)kbuf);
>  				return -EFAULT;
>  			}
> -			sz = vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
> -			count -= sz;
> -			buf += sz;
> -			virtr += sz;
> -			p += sz;
> +			n = vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
> +			count -= n;
> +			buf += n;
> +			virtr += n;
> +			p += n;
> +			if (n < sz)
> +				break;
>  		}
>  		free_page((unsigned long)kbuf);
>  	}
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