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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
	Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] aio: make sure the input "timeout" value is valid
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:31:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213193100.GA19700@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49y3m6a90r.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:27:00AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 09:42:52PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> >> Below information is reported by a lower kernel version, and I saw the
> >> problem still exist in current version.
> >
> > I think you're right, but what an awful interface we have here!
> > The user must not only fetch it, they must validate it separately?
> > And if they forget, then userspace is provoking undefined behaviour?  Ugh.
> > Why not this:
> 
> Why not go a step further and have get_timespec64 check for validity?
> I wonder what caller doesn't want that to happen...

There are some which don't today.  I'm hoping Deepa takes this and goes
off and fixes them all up.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-13 13:42 [PATCH 1/1] aio: make sure the input "timeout" value is valid Zhen Lei
2017-12-13 14:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-13 15:58   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2017-12-13 16:27   ` Jeff Moyer
2017-12-13 19:31     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2017-12-14  3:18       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2018-01-02 14:51         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-01-12 19:49           ` Jeff Moyer
2018-03-26 20:01             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-26 21:55               ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-27  4:43                 ` Deepa Dinamani

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