On 02/18/2014 11:13 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:51:37 +0400, Vladimir Davydov said: > >> out_fd = eventfd(0, 0); >> if (out_fd < 0) >> err(1, "eventfd"); >> ret = sendfile64(out_fd, in_fd, NULL, SIZE); >> I'm not sure if this is actually bad and should be fixed, but perhaps >> it's worth making do_generic_file_read() check for fatal signals pending >> and break the read loop if so? > Why do we even allow an eventfd to be fed to sendfile64 at all? What > does that even *mean*?
I guess it's meaningless, so another fix (if this should be fixed at all) would be disabling splice to eventfd. However, I cannot be 100%-sure nobody splices data to eventfd... Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
