On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:41:02PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > More or less. There's one corner case for all Linux I/O, and that is > > only writes up to INT_MAX are supported, and larger writes (and reads) > > get truncated to it. It's pretty nasty, but Linux has been vocally > > opposed to fixing this issue. > > I think we can safely ignore this. So just replacing the current > ret = -EINVAL; by a memset(buf + ret, 0, len - ret); ret = 0; should be > okay, right? (Of course using the qiov versions, but you get the idea)
This should be safe.
