Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:23:27 +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: <20120129062327.GK2726@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20120129001225.GA32220@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> <20120128123748.GD2726@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120129001225.GA32220@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:12:25PM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > 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 checkin=
g 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 frie=
nds.
> > > > > 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 rema=
in.
> > > >=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.
> >=20
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/uio_resid.5.patch
>=20
> Nice. You found a lot more than I've got in my tree, and you even
> fixed the return values. There are at least a few more places to
> fix. For instance, cd9660 and the NFS client pass uio_resid or
> iov_len to min(), which operates on ints. (Incidentally, C11
> generics ought to make it possible to write type-generic min()
> and max() functions.)
Thank you, http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/uio_resid.6.patch
changed them to MIN().
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