From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AIO syscall patch, and problem
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 03:29:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206192914.15bb375b.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075876893.5035.60.camel@ori.thedillows.org>
On 04 Feb 2004 02:02:30 -0500
David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org> wrote:
> The attached patch fixes a mis-numbering of the AIO syscalls under sparc
> and sparc64. I would have simply moved them all down, but then
> io_getevents would be at 272, and the big WARNING comment says we cannot
> use numbers larger than 271, so there you are. I used the oldstat
> syscall, since it was commented out.
There must be more to your patch right? Just changing the numbers
in the unistd.h files does not fix up the syscall table itself too.
I'll look into this and I may fix it differently.
> The problem is __copy_to_user() is being called with a size of 512, but
> is returning 576. size then underflows in the conditional, and
> aio_complete() eventually gets called with this as its return code,
> hence, -EHOSTDOWN.
I'll look into this too, that's a bad bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 7:02 AIO syscall patch, and problem David Dillow
2004-02-07 3:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-02-07 3:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-07 6:22 ` David Dillow
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