netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 16603] New: send of data

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:56:24 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, bono@...inehome.de
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 16603] New: send of data > 4 GB fails on 64
 bit systems

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:24:25 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> Ok, I suspect the following is enough to fix this specific bug
> report, TCP sending.
> 
> However, as I stated in my previous reply there are creepy
> crawlies all over the place.
> 
> For example, all of the routines in net/core/iovec.c (memcpy_toiovec,
> memcpy_toiovecend, memcpy_fromiovec, memcpy_fromiovecend,
> csum_partial_copy_fromiovecend) that cast using min_t() are currently
> casting "down" to "unsigned int".
> 
> They should probably case "up" to "size_t".

eep.

A blanket suckyfix might be, at the syscall level:

	if (size > 4g) {
		do_it_in_4g_hunks();
		do_the_last_bit();
	}

unless that would break some networking syscall->framesize guarantees
or something?

And such a "fix" would make it hard to test the real fix!


I'm surprised that this issue hasn't come up before.
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