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Message-Id: <20081202203734.1e4c9835.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:37:34 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...cast.net>
Cc: roel kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...ibm.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relay: When unsigned ret cannot store a negative value
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:29:51 -0600 Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...cast.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:38:06 -0500
> > roel kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > When unsigned ret cannot store a negative value
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > > UNTESTED! is this the way to go?
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
> > > index 32b0bef..c9d62e5 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/relay.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/relay.c
> > > @@ -1220,7 +1220,8 @@ static int subbuf_splice_actor(struct file *in,
> > > unsigned int flags,
> > > int *nonpad_ret)
> > > {
> > > - unsigned int pidx, poff, total_len, subbuf_pages, nr_pages, ret;
> > > + unsigned int pidx, poff, total_len, subbuf_pages, nr_pages;
> > > + ssize_t ret;
> > > struct rchan_buf *rbuf = in->private_data;
> > > unsigned int subbuf_size = rbuf->chan->subbuf_size;
> > > uint64_t pos = (uint64_t) *ppos;
> > > @@ -1289,7 +1290,8 @@ static int subbuf_splice_actor(struct file *in,
> > > if (!spd.nr_pages)
> > > return 0;
> > >
> > > - ret = *nonpad_ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
> > > + ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
> > > + *nonpad_ret = ret;
> > > if (ret < 0 || ret < total_len)
> > > return ret;
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, this code needs help. subbuf_splice_actor() returns `int', but
> > carefully calculates and returns an unsigned type.
> >
> > I suspect that quite a bit of code in there (including
> > relay_file_splice_read()) should be gone through and have its choice of
> > types reviewed and fixed. Probably by converting things to ssize_t.
> >
> >
>
> And maybe generic_file_splice_read() too, from whence it came.
sure.
> Speaking
> of which, is there some reason why this patch:
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.3/0094.html
>
> never got picked up?
>
Incompetence I guess.
Damn man, that's your third email address :(
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