Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix preadv64v2 and pwritev64v2 compat syscalls with offset == -1

From: Aurelien Jarno
Date: Sat Jan 12 2019 - 14:28:34 EST


On 2018-12-06 20:05, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls are supposed to emulate the readv and
> writev syscalls when offset == -1. Therefore the compat code should
> check for offset before calling do_compat_preadv64 and
> do_compat_pwritev64. This is the case for the preadv2 and pwritev2
> syscalls, but handling of offset == -1 is missing in their 64-bit
> equivalent.
>
> This patch fixes that, calling do_compat_readv and do_compat_writev when
> offset == -1. This fixes the following glibc tests on x32:
> - misc/tst-preadvwritev2
> - misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2
>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/read_write.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Any news about this patch?

Thanks,
Aurelien

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