Re: [LTP] [PATCH] io_submit: uninitialized iocb may not return -EINVAL

[Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 10/09/2012 02:08 PM, Nitin Yadav wrote:
> Hi Wanlong,
>    
>   Below are the output where I am getting - EPERM (returned value = 1) as a return value from io_submit. 
> 
> io_submit01    1  TPASS  :  expected failure - returned value = -22 : Invalid argument
> io_submit01    2  TPASS  :  expected failure - returned value = -22 : Invalid argument
> io_submit01    3  TFAIL    :  unexpected failure - returned value = 1 : Unknown error 18446744073709551615, expected one of -EINVAL, -EBADF, -EFAULT
> io_submit01    4  TPASS  :  expected failure - returned value = -14 : Bad address
> io_submit01    5  TPASS  :  expected failure - returned value = -22 : Invalid argument
> io_submit01    6  TPASS  :  expected failure - returned value = -9   : Bad file descriptor
> io_submit01    7  TPASS  :  expected success - returned value = 0
> io_submit01    8  TPASS  :  expected success - returned value = 1
> 
> Could you please let me know can we consider - EPERM case as a return value for io_submit.

OK, maybe I missed something, so, can you show us how did you produce this in detail?

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> Thanks,
> Nitin Yadav
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jan，
> 
>>>> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/io_submit/io_submit01.c
>>>> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/io_submit/io_submit01.c
>>>> @@ -126,7 +126,21 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>>>             /* 1.3 - EINVAL: uninitialized iocb */
>>>>             iocbs[0] = &iocb;
>>>>             TEST(io_submit(ctx, 1, iocbs));
>>>> -           check_result(-EINVAL, TEST_RETURN);
>>>> +           switch(TEST_RETURN) {
>>>> +                   case -EINVAL:
>>>> +                   case -EBADF:
>>>> +                   case -EFAULT:
>>>> +                   case -EPERM:
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think io_submit(2) can return -EPERM.
>>>
>>> Do you think so?
>>
>> I was trying all sorts of random data and I remember seeing once "-1".
>> I'm failing to reproduce it today, so I could be wrong. If I fail to find
>> data that gives -EPERM, I'll remove it in v2.
> 
> 
> I looked into the io_submit(2) code in kernel and didn't see any path can
> return -EPERM, so I think you should confirm on it again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wanlong Gao
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Wanlong Gao
>>>
>>
>>
> 
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