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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing: fix splice return too large
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:16:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090403131629.GA8875@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com>


* Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> -	for (i = 0; i < PIPE_BUFFERS && len; i++, len -= size) {
> +	if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) {
> +		WARN_ONCE(1, "Ftrace: previous read must page-align\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (len & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) {
> +		WARN_ONCE(1, "Ftrace: splice_read should page-align\n");
> +		if (len < PAGE_SIZE)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		len &= PAGE_MASK;
> +	}

Hm, the fix looks good, but is it a good idea to allow the 
triggering of this message from user-space?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-02  7:17 [PATCH 4/4] tracing: fix splice return too large Lai Jiangshan
2009-04-03 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-08  9:31   ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-04-08  9:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 14:13       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-10 11:07 ` [tip:tracing/core] " Lai Jiangshan

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