linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] aio: make sure the input "timeout" value is valid

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:31:00 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        Libin <huawei.libin@...wei.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] aio: make sure the input "timeout" value is valid

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:27:00AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 09:42:52PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> >> Below information is reported by a lower kernel version, and I saw the
> >> problem still exist in current version.
> >
> > I think you're right, but what an awful interface we have here!
> > The user must not only fetch it, they must validate it separately?
> > And if they forget, then userspace is provoking undefined behaviour?  Ugh.
> > Why not this:
> 
> Why not go a step further and have get_timespec64 check for validity?
> I wonder what caller doesn't want that to happen...

There are some which don't today.  I'm hoping Deepa takes this and goes
off and fixes them all up.