linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys

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Message-ID: <20070301235101.GA2519@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:51:01 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, suparna@...ibm.com,
	cmm@...ibm.com, alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:29:15PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Amit K. Arora wrote:
> 
> Might want more error checking in there, something like (rough cut)...
> (or is some of this glibc's job?)

Yeah, we need to have this checks.  We can't rely on userspace not
passing arguments that might corrupt your filesystem or let you
escalate privilegues.

> which would keep things in line with posix_fallocate's specified errors, 
> too?

Yes, very good idea.

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