From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_waitid: return -EFAULT for NULL Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:24:39 -0800 Message-ID: <496D30C7.4080001@redhat.com> References: <20090113224759.7DFB7FC3DD@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090113224941.36F19FC3DD@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090113152457.0d7685ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090113234716.765A8FC3DD@magilla.sf.frob.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton , torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, vegard.nossum-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, stable-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > I don't feel strongly about this, but lean towards the idea that we > should fix things, as per Roland's patch, and I suspect we can get > away with it, for the reasons I mentioned already. Yes, change it, it will only cause harm leaving it. I very much doubt any programmer deliberately uses this case and if it's not deliberate they likely want to know about it. - -- =E2=9E=A7 Ulrich Drepper =E2=9E=A7 Red Hat, Inc. =E2=9E=A7 444 Castro S= t =E2=9E=A7 Mountain View, CA =E2=9D=96 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkltMMcACgkQ2ijCOnn/RHQ8fQCgnghAaJQ4fkEMZCnQwsaza80X WrIAn2z7tEsiMy8pYJs3gkdzO6CNiKTz =3DWaAV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html