The patch titled
aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
aio-negative-offset-should-return-einval.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL
From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/aio.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/aio.c~aio-negative-offset-should-return-einval fs/aio.c
--- a/fs/aio.c~aio-negative-offset-should-return-einval
+++ a/fs/aio.c
@@ -1329,6 +1329,10 @@ static ssize_t aio_rw_vect_retry(struct
opcode = IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV;
}
+ /* This matches the pread()/pwrite() logic */
+ if (iocb->ki_pos < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
do {
ret = rw_op(iocb, &iocb->ki_iovec[iocb->ki_cur_seg],
iocb->ki_nr_segs - iocb->ki_cur_seg,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
origin.patch
git-kvm.patch
reiser4.patch
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