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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
	sandeen@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Perform check in iov_iter_fault_in_readable() by check_readable_bytes()
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:31:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518093136.152a1bb7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515134315.GB8235@shareable.org>

> System calls don't trigger SIGSEGVs so they can't rely on that when
> calling read().  I'm not sure how they handle that.

Usually by touching the pages before the syscall. (You can't rely on
-EFAULT either in POSIX, its optional that it bothers to tell you and for
example on MMUless it may well not)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 16:18 [PATCH 0/2] sys_write() should write all valid data Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-14 16:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce check_readable_bytes() Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-14 17:40   ` Josef Bacik
2009-05-14 17:57     ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-14 16:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Perform check in iov_iter_fault_in_readable() by check_readable_bytes() Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-15  6:56   ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-15  7:56     ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-15  9:38       ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-15 11:56         ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-15 12:19           ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-15 13:43         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-15 14:01           ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-15 14:37             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-18  8:31           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-05-18  9:48             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-18 10:03               ` Alan Cox
2009-05-18 10:16               ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-19  8:55   ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-14 18:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] sys_write() should write all valid data Josef Bacik
2009-05-14 18:48   ` Vitaly Mayatskikh
2009-05-14 19:05     ` Josef Bacik
2009-05-15  6:52 ` Andi Kleen

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