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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4858295D.8000904@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806171331460.2908@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> I actually am starting to think that the bug is in 
>> __copy_to_user_inatomic_nocache().
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
> The uncached user copies are totally broken. The number of bytes left 
> uncopied is simply wrong, because of how it does that unrolled loop and 
> doesn't account for the fact that just doing loads does not actually 
> increase the number of bytes copied at all.

How can a load fault legitimately in copy_to_user?

-Andi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-17 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-17  6:00 BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17  6:02 ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17 17:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 17:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 20:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 20:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:06           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:16             ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:24               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:30                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:36                 ` Al Viro
2008-06-17 21:42                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:49                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 22:11                     ` Al Viro
2008-06-17 22:21                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-18  6:22                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-17 21:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18  2:27               ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18  3:14               ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18  4:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18  5:11                   ` Cyrus mmap vs lseek/write usage - (WAS: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable)) Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18 16:22                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 23:45                       ` Robert Mueller
2008-06-19  0:20                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-03 11:44               ` BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes still in the wild Bron Gondwana
2008-10-03 13:07                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-04  0:13                   ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17 21:15           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-06-17 20:58         ` BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:14           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:26             ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:31               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:34                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18  6:10                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-18  2:21     ` Bron Gondwana

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