I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be applied on the qemu head. They fix some LTP tests.
Lauro 2007/12/11, Thayne Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The EFAULT changes use a result of NULL to detect a failure from lock*() > functions. There are syscalls that accept NULL as a valid argument and > now the syscalls return -EFAULT. These patches allow appropriate > syscalls to accept NULL. > > I have put together a regression test harness wrapped around the Linux > Test Project (LTP). I've been able to find regressions that were caused > by the EFAULT changes. It's more exhaustive than running an ls > executable and has helped find existing bugs as well as regressions. It > will run regression tests for multiple architectures. > > I'll be sending a few more patches for this same type of regression. I > should also be sending in the test harness once I've worked out a few > more details. > >
