Re: pread and pwrite

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

"H. J. Lu" wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:18:17PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > Ralf Baechle wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Here there is some checking for sane values and a proper error value is
> > > > return.
> > > > I guess this routine is replaced, if we have the syscall implemented
> > > > with the sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c file.
> > > > Here there is no check for sane values, is there any reason why ?
> > > > The same thing goes for pwrite.
> > >
> > > The kernel does it's own error checking.  No need to duplicate that in
> > > userspace.
> >
> > The kernel doesn't do this a proper check then.
> > The pread/pwrite parameters is also convert in glibc, the 'offset' is
> > convert from a 'long' to a 'long long', but it isn't sign extended.
> > So when pread is call with offset -1, then kernel won't see it as -1.
> >
>
> Please check it out:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-07/msg00188.html
>
> H.J.

So the same issue has been raised today on the glibc list, amazing. I guess the
problem has existed quite some time.
But it look like the patch will fix the problem. Do you know if the patch has
been committed and which version of glibc will it then be fixed in ?

Thanks,
/Carsten