Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:37:48 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r230583 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <20120128123748.GD2726@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20120127194221.GA25723@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <201201261159.q0QBxma2086162@svn.freebsd.org> <20120126233110.C960@besplex.bde.org> <20120126153641.GA68112@FreeBSD.org> <20120127194612.H1547@besplex.bde.org> <20120127091244.GZ2726@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120127194221.GA25723@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 02:42:21PM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:50:30PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > >=20
> > > >On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:53:57PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > >B> > @@ -1552,6 +1552,12 @@ aio_aqueue(struct thread *td, struct aio
> > > >B> > return (error);
> > > >B> > }
> > > >B> >
> > > >B> > + /* XXX: aio_nbytes is later casted to signed types. */
> > > >B> > + if ((int)aiocbe->uaiocb.aio_nbytes < 0) {
> > > >B>
> > > >B> This should avoid implementation-defined behaviour by checking if
> > > >B>
> > > >B> (uncast)aiocbe->uaiocb.aio_nbytes > INT_MAX.
> > >=20
> > > >Is the attached patch okay?
> > >=20
> > > Yes. It now matches the style used for read^Wsys_read() and friends.
> > > This used to have to fit the count in "int uio_resid". uio_resid now
> > > has type ssize_t, but for some reason the old INT_MAX limits remain.
> >=20
> > Well, I can revive the patch. I still think it is good to get rid of
> > the limit.
>=20
> The correct limit on the maximum size of a single read/write is
> SSIZE_MAX, but FreeBSD uses INT_MAX. It's not safe to raise the
> limit yet, though, because of bugs in several filesystems. For
> example, FFS copies uio_resid into a local variable of type int.
> I have some old patches that fix some of these issues for FFS and
> cd9660, but surely there are more places I didn't notice.
>=20
Absolutely agree.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/uio_resid.5.patch
> By the way, PR 147226 is about this.
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