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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:14:25 -0300
From: "Lauro Ramos Venancio" <lauro.venancio@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] zero/NULL fixes.
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To: thayne@c2.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be
applied on the qemu head.
They fix some LTP tests.

Lauro

2007/12/11, Thayne Harbaugh <thayne@c2.net>:
> The EFAULT changes use a result of NULL to detect a failure from lock*()
> functions.  There are syscalls that accept NULL as a valid argument and
> now the syscalls return -EFAULT.  These patches allow appropriate
> syscalls to accept NULL.
>
> I have put together a regression test harness wrapped around the Linux
> Test Project (LTP).  I've been able to find regressions that were caused
> by the EFAULT changes.  It's more exhaustive than running an ls
> executable and has helped find existing bugs as well as regressions.  It
> will run regression tests for multiple architectures.
>
> I'll be sending a few more patches for this same type of regression.  I
> should also be sending in the test harness once I've worked out a few
> more details.
>
>