From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: arve@android.com, riandrews@android.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] fs: fix kernel_read prototype
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:37:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170830153704.GN5426@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170830150007.3953-6-hch@lst.de>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:59:56PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use proper ssize_t and size_t types for the return value and count
> argument, move the offset last and make it an in/out argument like
> all other read/write helpers.
Might be better to switch the third argument to void * at the same time
and lose those casts.
> if (p)
> memcpy(p + offset, buf, n);
> -
> - offset += n;
Almost certainly broken - in effect, you've taken the update of offset
several lines prior, so that memcpy() is getting the wrong first argument.
The same needs to be watched out for in other similar places.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-30 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-30 14:59 switch in-kernel read/write calls to kernel_read/write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 01/16] ashmem: switch to ->read_iter Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:28 ` Al Viro
2017-09-01 10:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 02/16] autofs4: switch autofs4_write to __kernel_write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:30 ` Al Viro
2017-09-01 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 03/16] fs: move kernel_write to fs/read_write.c Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 04/16] fs: move kernel_read " Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 05/16] fs: fix kernel_read prototype Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:37 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-09-01 10:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 06/16] fs: fix kernel_write prototype Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:39 ` Al Viro
2017-09-01 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 07/16] serial2002: switch serial2002_tty_write to kernel_{read/write} Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 14:59 ` [PATCH 08/16] mm/nommu: switch do_mmap_private to kernel_read Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:41 ` Al Viro
2017-09-01 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 09/16] net/9p: switch p9_fd_read to kernel_write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 10/16] btrfs: switch write_buf " Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:35 ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 11/16] mconsole: switch to kernel_read Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 12/16] gadget/f_mass_storage: stop messing with the address limit Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 13/16] lustre: switch to kernel_write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 14/16] fs: unexport __vfs_read/__vfs_write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 15/16] fs: unexport vfs_read and vfs_write Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH 16/16] fs: unexport vfs_readv and vfs_writev Christoph Hellwig
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