Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix preadv64v2 and pwritev64v2 compat syscalls with offset == -1

From: Aurelien Jarno
Date: Sat Feb 16 2019 - 10:15:42 EST


On 2019-01-12 20:07, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2018-12-06 20:05, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > The preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls are supposed to emulate the readv and
> > writev syscalls when offset == -1. Therefore the compat code should
> > check for offset before calling do_compat_preadv64 and
> > do_compat_pwritev64. This is the case for the preadv2 and pwritev2
> > syscalls, but handling of offset == -1 is missing in their 64-bit
> > equivalent.
> >
> > This patch fixes that, calling do_compat_readv and do_compat_writev when
> > offset == -1. This fixes the following glibc tests on x32:
> > - misc/tst-preadvwritev2
> > - misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2
> >
> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/read_write.c | 6 ++++++
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> Any news about this patch?
>

Ping.

Aurelien

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