From: chrubis@suse.cz
To: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, Nitin Yadav <Nitin.Yadav@mphasis.com>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] io_submit: uninitialized iocb may not return -EINVAL
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:11:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121016101101.GB9320@rei.Home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82432993.665989.1350370438315.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
Hi!
> Notice that return value is positive (1). So it could be that some random data
> succeeded and one iocb was actually submitted.
Well I think that if you pass random data to the kernel the only
assumption that may hold is that this action should not bring the system
down (unless of course you happen to initiate shutdown).
From this point of view calling libcalls/syscalls with random values and
asserting certain results makes a little sense.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-16 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 9:52 [LTP] crashme:fork12 test may kill other process that is not forked child 羅秉鈞
2012-06-29 7:45 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-10-09 6:08 ` [LTP] [PATCH] io_submit: uninitialized iocb may not return -EINVAL Nitin Yadav
2012-10-16 2:31 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-10-16 6:53 ` Jan Stancek
2012-10-16 10:11 ` chrubis [this message]
[not found] ` <E351E450E8B9F54684A699D42DC5ADF2263AF477@MPBAGVEX02.corp.mphasis.com>
[not found] ` <E351E450E8B9F54684A699D42DC5ADF22640E162@MPBAGVEX02.corp.mphasis.com>
2012-10-17 12:44 ` [LTP] [PATCH] io_submit: uninitialized iocb may notreturn-EINVAL chrubis
2012-06-29 16:22 ` [LTP] crashme:fork12 test may kill other process that is not forked child chrubis
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2012-07-05 13:03 [LTP] [PATCH] io_submit: uninitialized iocb may not return -EINVAL Nitin Yadav
2012-03-14 14:53 Jan Stancek
2012-03-15 1:09 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-03-15 2:09 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-03-15 7:48 ` Jan Stancek
2012-03-15 7:56 ` Wanlong Gao
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