From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756368Ab1KNWAF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:05 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43349 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755960Ab1KNWAE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4EC18F5E.2040407@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:59:58 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrei Warkentin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem: Fix wrong error on accessing beyond valid memory addresses. References: <2018804336.46235.1321305700330.JavaMail.root@zimbra-prod-mbox-2.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <2018804336.46235.1321305700330.JavaMail.root@zimbra-prod-mbox-2.vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/14/2011 01:21 PM, Andrei Warkentin wrote: > > I know you're very busy, but I was wondering if you could > give your two cents on this change. This change grew from > our discussion on LKML last week. > > Thanks ahead, > A EOF seems wrong to me (not as bad as EFAULT, but still wrong). -hpa