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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] arm64: an infinite loop in generic_perform_write()
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:24:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNP6/p/yJzLLr8M8@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c635945-fb25-8871-7b34-f475f75b2caf@huawei.com>

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:10:41AM +0800, Chen Huang wrote:
> In userspace, I perform such operation:
> 
>  	fd = open("/tmp/test", O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
>         access_address = (char *)mmap(NULL, uio_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, uio_fd, 0);
>         ret = write(fd, access_address + 2, sizeof(long));

... you know that accessing this at unaligned offsets isn't going to
work.  It's completely meaningless.  Why are you trying to do it?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23  2:39 [BUG] arm64: an infinite loop in generic_perform_write() Chen Huang
2021-06-23  2:50 ` Al Viro
2021-06-23  3:24   ` Xiaoming Ni
2021-06-23  4:27     ` Al Viro
2021-06-23  9:32       ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-23 11:51         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-23 13:04         ` Al Viro
2021-06-23 13:22 ` Mark Rutland
2021-06-24  3:10   ` Chen Huang
2021-06-24  3:24     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-06-24  3:52       ` Chen Huang
2021-06-24  7:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-24 11:15         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-24 13:22           ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-24 16:27             ` Al Viro
2021-06-24 16:38               ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-24 16:39                 ` Al Viro
2021-06-24 17:24                   ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-24 18:55               ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-24 20:36                 ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-25 10:39                   ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-28 16:22                     ` Robin Murphy
2021-06-29  8:30                       ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-29 10:01                         ` Robin Murphy
2021-07-06 17:50                       ` Catalin Marinas
2021-07-06 19:15                         ` Robin Murphy
2021-07-07  9:55                           ` David Laight
2021-07-07 11:04                             ` Robin Murphy
2021-07-07 12:50                           ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-24 15:09           ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-24 16:17             ` Al Viro

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