Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] vfs: Define new syscalls preadv2,pwritev2

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 18:26:43 EST


Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> New syscalls that take an flag argument. This change does not add any specific
> flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/read_write.c | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> include/linux/compat.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 6 ++
> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 6 +-
> mm/filemap.c | 5 +-
> 5 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
> index 94b2d34..907735c 100644
> --- a/fs/read_write.c
> +++ b/fs/read_write.c
> @@ -866,6 +866,8 @@ ssize_t vfs_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *vec,
> return -EBADF;
> if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_READ))
> return -EINVAL;
> + if (flags & ~0)
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> return do_readv_writev(READ, file, vec, vlen, pos, flags);
> }
> @@ -879,21 +881,23 @@ ssize_t vfs_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *vec,
> return -EBADF;
> if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_CAN_WRITE))
> return -EINVAL;
> + if (flags & ~0)
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> return do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos, flags);
> }

Hi, Milosz,

You've checked for invalid flags for the normal system calls, but not
for the compat variants. Can you add that in, please?

Thanks!
Jeff
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