From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] generic/43[014]: copy_range beyond source EOF should fail
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 09:23:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181205222334.GY19305@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181203064256.26768-3-david@fromorbit.com>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 05:42:55PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> As per the copy_file_range() man page:
>
> EINVAL
> Requested range extends beyond the end of the source file;
> .....
>
> These tests actually attempt to copy beyond the end of the source
> file and so should fail with EINVAL. The kernel does not check this
> and so needs fixing. These operations should fail, so fix the tests.
>
> Also move the tests to the copy_range group so they are distinct
> from the copy group which refers to xfs_copy tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Self NACK on this - the behaviour for this corner case we've decided
on is going to be different to what the man page says, so this patch
is going to have to be reworked.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-05 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-03 6:42 [PATCH 0/3] fstests: copy_file_range() bounds testing Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 6:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] common: add _require_test_swapfile Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 16:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-13 12:16 ` Xiao Yang
2018-12-18 21:54 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 6:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] generic/43[014]: copy_range beyond source EOF should fail Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 7:30 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 8:10 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 16:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-05 22:23 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2018-12-03 6:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] generic: copy_file_range bounds test Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 7:25 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 8:17 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 9:22 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 13:15 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-05-13 6:03 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 16:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-05-21 5:33 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 16:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] fstests: copy_file_range() bounds testing Darrick J. Wong
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