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authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>2010-05-26 14:44:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:53 -0700
commitb83733639a494d5f42fa00a2506563fbd2d3015d (patch)
tree5aea71a7b0da140d839cc6109091350e1fbc8868 /include/linux/compat.h
parent5b530fc18324602e1ecb70cd280c2194b2656a5e (diff)
compat: factor out compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev
It was reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/8/309 that 32 bit readv and writev AIO operations were not functioning properly. It turns out that the code to convert the 32bit io vectors to 64 bits was never written. The results of that can be pretty bad, but in my testing, it mostly ended up in generating EFAULT as we walked off the list of I/O vectors provided. This patch set fixes the problem in my environment. are greatly appreciated. This patch: Factor out code that will be used by both compat_do_readv_writev and the compat aio submission code paths. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.35.1] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compat.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compat.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 717c691ecd8e..168f7daa7bde 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -356,5 +356,9 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_newfstatat(unsigned int dfd, char __user * filename,
asmlinkage long compat_sys_openat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename,
int flags, int mode);
+extern ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type,
+ const struct compat_iovec __user *uvector, unsigned long nr_segs,
+ unsigned long fast_segs, struct iovec *fast_pointer,
+ struct iovec **ret_pointer);
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
#endif /* _LINUX_COMPAT_H */