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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Nathaniel Yazdani <n1ght.4nd.d4y@gmail.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for-next 4/4] epoll: epoll() syscall definition
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:21:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140225102144.GA10176@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393206162-18151-5-git-send-email-n1ght.4nd.d4y@gmail.com>

Nathaniel Yazdani <n1ght.4nd.d4y@gmail.com> wrote:
> + * stores triggered eventpoll entries in the 'out' array. The input array is
> + * _not_ read-only, because the resulting event mask gets written back to each
> + * entry's ->ep_events field. When successful, this will be the same as before
> + * (plus EPOLLERR & EPOLLHUP). If ->ep_events gets cleared, then it is reasonable
> + * to infer that the entry's ->ep_fildes was a bad file descriptor.
> + */

> +	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, in, inc * sizeof(struct epoll)))
> +		goto out;
> +	for (i = 0; i < inc; ++i) {
> +		int fd, io;
> +		long long id;
> +
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +		if (__get_user(fd, &in[i].ep_fildes) ||
> +		    __get_user(io, &in[i].ep_events) ||
> +		    __get_user(id, &in[i].ep_ident))
> +			goto out;
> +
> +		ep_control(file->private_data, fd, &io, id, 0);
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +		if (__put_user(io, &in[i].ep_events))
> +			goto out;

I don't think we should waste cycles writing to 'in' on success.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-25 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24  1:42 [RFC PATCH for-next 0/4] epoll: combined control/wait syscall Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  1:42 ` [RFC PATCH for-next 1/4] epoll: struct epoll userspace definiton Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  5:29   ` Eric Wong
     [not found]     ` <CAJ3m7Bq1y+MLn=HFY3AADnVc2HK31+WANahiYLUcdBw=hh_2pg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <20140225101527.GA9963@dcvr.yhbt.net>
2014-02-26  0:13         ` Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  1:42 ` [RFC PATCH for-next 2/4] epoll: epoll() syscall declaration Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  5:32   ` Eric Wong
2014-02-24  5:44     ` Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-25 10:30       ` Eric Wong
2014-02-25 23:44         ` Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  1:42 ` [RFC PATCH for-next 3/4] epoll: struct epoll support Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24 18:59   ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-02-24 19:24     ` Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-24  1:42 ` [RFC PATCH for-next 4/4] epoll: epoll() syscall definition Nathaniel Yazdani
2014-02-25 10:21   ` Eric Wong [this message]
2014-02-25 23:46     ` Nathaniel Yazdani

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