From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lseek/llseek allows the negative offset
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:20:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001118172034.A22523@valinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001117155913.A26622@valinux.com> <20001117160900.A27010@valinux.com> <20001118192542.B24555@athlon.random> <20001119014512.G26779@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20001119014512.G26779@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:45:12AM +0100
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:45:12AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 07:25:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I fixed it this way:
>
> fix is plain wrong, it's still possible to have lseek return -1 -2 -3 -4
> even when it should return -EINVAL.
>
Try this again 2.2.18pre21. It works for me.
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
---
--- linux/fs/ext2/file.c.lseek Sat Nov 18 17:18:49 2000
+++ linux/fs/ext2/file.c Sat Nov 18 17:19:28 2000
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static long long ext2_file_lseek(
case 1:
offset += file->f_pos;
}
+ if (offset < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
if (((unsigned long long) offset >> 32) != 0) {
#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
return -EINVAL;
--- linux/fs/proc/mem.c.lseek Tue Jan 4 10:12:23 2000
+++ linux/fs/proc/mem.c Sat Nov 18 17:19:28 2000
@@ -196,14 +196,17 @@ static long long mem_lseek(struct file *
{
switch (orig) {
case 0:
- file->f_pos = offset;
- return file->f_pos;
+ break;
case 1:
- file->f_pos += offset;
- return file->f_pos;
+ offset += file->f_pos;
+ break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (offset < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ file->f_pos = offset;
+ return offset;
}
/*
-
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-19 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-17 23:59 lseek/llseek allows the negative offset H . J . Lu
2000-11-18 0:09 ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-18 18:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-18 22:41 ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-19 0:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-19 1:20 ` H . J . Lu [this message]
2000-11-19 3:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-19 3:46 ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-20 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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