Both import_iovec() and rw_copy_check_uvector() take an array
(typically small and on-stack) which is used to hold an iovec array copy
from userspace. This is to avoid an expensive memory allocation in the
fast path (i.e. few iovec elements).
The caller may have to check whether these functions actually used
the provided buffer or allocated a new one -- but this differs between
the too. Let's just add a kernel doc to clarify what the semantics are
for each function.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Don't use the same syscall numbers for 2 different syscalls:
534 x32 preadv compat_sys_preadv64
535 x32 pwritev compat_sys_pwritev64
534 x32 preadv2 compat_sys_preadv2
535 x32 pwritev2 compat_sys_pwritev2
Add compat_sys_preadv64v2() and compat_sys_pwritev64v2() so that 64-bit offset
is passed in one 64-bit register on x32, similar to compat_sys_preadv64()
and compat_sys_pwritev64().
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOovCMf-RQfx_n1U_Tu_DX1BYkjtFr%3DQ4-_PFVSj9BCzUA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull iov_iter cleanups from Al Viro.
* 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fold checks into iterate_and_advance()
rw_verify_area(): saner calling conventions
aio: remove a pointless assignment
Pull vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
"More cleanups from Christoph"
* 'work.preadv2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
nfsd: use RWF_SYNC
fs: add RWF_DSYNC aand RWF_SYNC
ceph: use generic_write_sync
fs: simplify the generic_write_sync prototype
fs: add IOCB_SYNC and IOCB_DSYNC
direct-io: remove the offset argument to dio_complete
direct-io: eliminate the offset argument to ->direct_IO
xfs: eliminate the pos variable in xfs_file_dio_aio_write
filemap: remove the pos argument to generic_file_direct_write
filemap: remove pos variables in generic_file_read_iter
This is the per-I/O equivalent of O_DSYNC and O_SYNC, and very useful for
all kinds of file servers and storage targets.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Lift length capping into the few callers that care about it. Most of
them treat all non-negatives as "success" and ignore the capped value,
and with good reasons.
Make rw_verify_area() return 0 on success.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This adds a flag that tells the file system that this is a high priority
request for which it's worth to poll the hardware. The flag is purely
advisory and can be ignored if not supported.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
New syscalls that take an flag argument. No flags are added yet in this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
[hch: rebased on top of my kiocb changes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This way we can set kiocb flags also from the sync read/write path for
the read_iter/write_iter operations. For now there is no way to pass
flags to plain read/write operations as there is no real need for that,
and all flags passed are explicitly rejected for these files.
Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
[hch: rebased on top of my kiocb changes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@pmcs.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-EBADF is a rather confusing error if an operations is not supported,
and nfsd gets rather upset about it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The user-visible impact of the issue is for example that without this
patch sensors-detect breaks when trying to seek in /dev/cpu/0/cpuid.
'~0ULL' is a 'unsigned long long' that when converted to a loff_t,
which is signed, gets turned into -1. later in vfs_setpos we have
'if (offset > maxsize)', which makes it always return EINVAL.
Fixes: b25472f9b9 ("new helpers: no_seek_end_llseek{,_size}()")
Signed-off-by: Wouter van Kesteren <woutershep@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If the program running dedupe receives a fatal signal during the
dedupe loop, we should bail out to avoid tying up the system.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).
Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"All kinds of stuff. That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.
Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
of various kinds, several new helpers for ->llseek(), assorted
cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.
One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
lookup_one_len_unlocked(). Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
called without ->i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it. That, of
course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
with that. I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough... I
*am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with ->lookup() done under lock
taken shared.
There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
->i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested(). To quote Linus back then:
-----
| This is an automated patch using
|
| sed 's/mutex_lock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
| sed 's/mutex_unlock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
| sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&\(.*\)->i_mutex,[ ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
| sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
| sed 's/mutex_trylock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
|
| with a very few manual fixups
-----
I'm going to send that once the ->i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
merges)"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
[s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
nbd: use ->compat_ioctl()
fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
fs: use gendisk->disk_name where possible
poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
[um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
[um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
...
Hoist the btrfs EXTENT_SAME ioctl up to the VFS and make the name
more systematic (FIDEDUPERANGE).
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The btrfs clone ioctls are now adopted by other file systems, with NFS
and CIFS already having support for them, and XFS being under active
development. To avoid growth of various slightly incompatible
implementations, add one to the VFS. Note that clones are different from
file copies in several ways:
- they are atomic vs other writers
- they support whole file clones
- they support 64-bit legth clones
- they do not allow partial success (aka short writes)
- clones are expected to be a fast metadata operation
Because of that it would be rather cumbersome to try to piggyback them on
top of the recent clone_file_range infrastructure. The converse isn't
true and the clone_file_range system call could try clone file range as
a first attempt to copy, something that further patches will enable.
Based on earlier work from Peng Tao.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pass a loff_t end for the last byte instead of the 32-bit count
parameter to allow full file clones even on 32-bit architectures.
While we're at it also simplify the read/write selection.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This allows us to have an in-kernel copy mechanism that avoids frequent
switches between kernel and user space. This is especially useful so
NFSD can support server-side copies.
The default (flags=0) means to first attempt copy acceleration, but use
the pagecache if that fails.
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a copy_file_range() system call for offloading copies between
regular files.
This gives an interface to underlying layers of the storage stack which
can copy without reading and writing all the data. There are a few
candidates that should support copy offloading in the nearer term:
- btrfs shares extent references with its clone ioctl
- NFS has patches to add a COPY command which copies on the server
- SCSI has a family of XCOPY commands which copy in the device
This system call avoids the complexity of also accelerating the creation
of the destination file by operating on an existing destination file
descriptor, not a path.
Currently the high level vfs entry point limits copy offloading to files
on the same mount and super (and not in the same file). This can be
relaxed if we get implementations which can copy between file systems
safely.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
[Anna Schumaker: Change -EINVAL to -EBADF during file verification,
Change flags parameter from int to unsigned int,
Add function to include/linux/syscalls.h,
Check copy len after file open mode,
Don't forbid ranges inside the same file,
Use rw_verify_area() to veriy ranges,
Use file_out rather than file_in,
Add COPY_FR_REFLINK flag]
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
That allows ->write_iter() instances much more convenient life wrt
iocb->ki_pos (and fixes several filesystems with borderline POSIX
violations when zero-length write succeeds and changes the current
position).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
all remaining instances of aio_{read,write} (all 4 of them) have explicit
->read and ->write resp.; do_sync_read/do_sync_write is never called by
__vfs_read/__vfs_write anymore and no other users had been left.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The AIO interface is fairly complex because it tries to allow
filesystems to always work async and then wakeup a synchronous
caller through aio_complete. It turns out that basically no one
was doing this to avoid the complexity and context switches,
and we've already fixed up the remaining users and can now
get rid of this case.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
There is no need to pass the total request length in the kiocb, as
we already get passed in through the iov_iter argument.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull iov_iter updates from Al Viro:
"More iov_iter work - missing counterpart of iov_iter_init() for
bvec-backed ones and vfs_read_iter()/vfs_write_iter() - wrappers for
sync calls of ->read_iter()/->write_iter()"
* 'iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: add vfs_iter_{read,write} helpers
new helper: iov_iter_bvec()
Simple helpers that pass an arbitrary iov_iter to filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull security layer updates from James Morris:
"In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack,
SELinux, and integrity code.
The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT,
which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures. Support for reading
keys from rootfs before init is call is also added"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
selinux: Remove security_ops extern
security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack()
VFS: refactor vfs_read()
ima: require signature based appraisal
integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready
ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file()
Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack
Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels
ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt
ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero
ima: added error messages to template-related functions
ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface
ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines
ima: no need to allocate entry for comment
ima: report policy load status
ima: use path names cache
...
integrity_kernel_read() duplicates the file read operations code
in vfs_read(). This patch refactors vfs_read() code creating a
helper function __vfs_read(). It is used by both vfs_read() and
integrity_kernel_read().
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Beginning to introduce those. Just the callers for now, and it's
clumsier than it'll eventually become; once we finish converting
aio_read and aio_write instances, the things will get nicer.
For now, these guys are in parallel to ->aio_read() and ->aio_write();
they take iocb and iov_iter, with everything in iov_iter already
validated. File offset is passed in iocb->ki_pos, iov/nr_segs -
in iov_iter.
Main concerns in that series are stack footprint and ability to
split the damn thing cleanly.
[fix from Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> folded]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since we are about to introduce new methods (read_iter/write_iter), the
tests in a bunch of places would have to grow inconveniently. Check
once (at open() time) and store results in ->f_mode as FMODE_CAN_READ
and FMODE_CAN_WRITE resp. It might end up being a temporary measure -
once everything switches from ->aio_{read,write} to ->{read,write}_iter
it might make sense to return to open-coded checks. We'll see...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull s390 compat wrapper rework from Heiko Carstens:
"S390 compat system call wrapper simplification work.
The intention of this work is to get rid of all hand written assembly
compat system call wrappers on s390, which perform proper sign or zero
extension, or pointer conversion of compat system call parameters.
Instead all of this should be done with C code eg by using Al's
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.
Therefore all common code and s390 specific compat system calls have
been converted to the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.
In order to generate correct code all compat system calls may only
have eg compat_ulong_t parameters, but no unsigned long parameters.
Those patches which change parameter types from unsigned long to
compat_ulong_t parameters are separate in this series, but shouldn't
cause any harm.
The only compat system calls which intentionally have 64 bit
parameters (preadv64 and pwritev64) in support of the x86/32 ABI
haven't been changed, but are now only available if an architecture
defines __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PREADV64/PWRITEV64.
System calls which do not have a compat variant but still need proper
zero extension on s390, like eg "long sys_brk(unsigned long brk)" will
get a proper wrapper function with the new s390 specific
COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAPx() macro:
COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP1(brk, unsigned long, brk);
which generates the following code (simplified):
asmlinkage long sys_brk(unsigned long brk);
asmlinkage long compat_sys_brk(long brk)
{
return sys_brk((u32)brk);
}
Given that the C file which contains all the COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP lines
includes both linux/syscall.h and linux/compat.h, it will generate
build errors, if the declaration of sys_brk() doesn't match, or if
there exists a non-matching compat_sys_brk() declaration.
In addition this will intentionally result in a link error if
somewhere else a compat_sys_brk() function exists, which probably
should have been used instead. Two more BUILD_BUG_ONs make sure the
size and type of each compat syscall parameter can be handled
correctly with the s390 specific macros.
I converted the compat system calls step by step to verify the
generated code is correct and matches the previous code. In fact it
did not always match, however that was always a bug in the hand
written asm code.
In result we get less code, less bugs, and much more sanity checking"
* 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (44 commits)
s390/compat: add copyright statement
compat: include linux/unistd.h within linux/compat.h
s390/compat: get rid of compat wrapper assembly code
s390/compat: build error for large compat syscall args
mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
kexec/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
security/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
kernel/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
fs/compat: optional preadv64/pwrite64 compat system calls
ipc/compat_sys_msgrcv: change msgtyp type from long to compat_long_t
s390/compat: partial parameter conversion within syscall wrappers
s390/compat: automatic zero, sign and pointer conversion of syscalls
s390/compat: add sync_file_range and fallocate compat syscalls
...
Commit 9c225f2655 ("vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX") changed
several system calls to use fdget_pos() instead of fdget(), but missed
sys_llseek(). Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
instead of returning the flags by reference, we can just have the
low-level primitive return those in lower bits of unsigned long,
with struct file * derived from the rest.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get
the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually
guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so
threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()"
concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data.
This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says:
"2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations
All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each
other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on
regular files or symbolic links: [...]"
and one of the effects is the file position update.
This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody
has ever cared. Until now. Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to
Michael Kerrisk that was due to this.
This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by
read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads
or processes.
Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The preadv64/pwrite64 have been implemented for the x32 ABI, in order
to allow passing 64 bit arguments from user space without splitting
them into two 32 bit parameters, like it would be necessary for usual
compat tasks.
Howevert these two system calls are only being used for the x32 ABI,
so add __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT defines for these two compat syscalls and
make these two only visible for x86.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
We got a report that the pwritev syscall does not work correctly in
compat mode on s390.
It turned out that with commit 72ec35163f ("switch compat readv/writev
variants to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE") we lost the zero extension of a
couple of syscall parameters because the some parameter types haven't
been converted from unsigned long to compat_ulong_t.
This is needed for architectures where the ABI requires that the caller
of a function performed zero and/or sign extension to 64 bit of all
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The compat_do_readv_writev() function was doing a verify_area on the
incoming iov, but the nr_segs value is not checked. If someone passes
in a -1 for nr_segs, for instance, the function should return an EINVAL.
However, it returns a EFAULT because the verify_area fails because it is
checking an array of size MAX_UINT. The check is bogus, anyway, because
the next check, compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(), will do all the
necessary checking, anyway. The non-compat do_readv_writev() function
doesn't do this check, so I think it's safe to just remove the code.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vegard Nossum