linux-kernel - Re: iov_iter_fault_in

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:21:09 +1000
From:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	mark.fasheh@...cle.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: iov_iter_fault_in_readable fix

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:31:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:57:59PM +0400, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote:
> >  	Function prerform check for signgle region, with out respect to
> >  	segment nature of iovec, For example writev no longer works :)
> 
> Btw, could someone please start to collect all sniplets like this in
> a nice simple regression test suite?  If no one wants to start a new
> one we should probably just put it into xfsqa (which should be useable
> for other filesystems aswell despite the name)

Yeah, it can run a subset of the tests on NFS and UDF filesystems as well and
there are some specific UDF-only tests in it too.  I think the NFS test group
is mostly generic tests that don't use or test specific XFS features.

I'd be happy to accumulate tests like these in xfsqa...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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