linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL

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Message-ID: <477D42D3.1060500@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:17:23 -0800
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	bcrl@...ck.org, linux-aio@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL

Rusty Russell wrote:
> An AIO read or write should return -EINVAL if the offset is negative.
> This check matches the one in pread and pwrite.
> 
> This was found by the libaio test suite.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

This looks fine to me.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>

- z
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