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Re: [patch] Fix BZ 19165 -- overflow in fread / fwrite
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root at openwall dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:58:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix BZ 19165 -- overflow in fread / fwrite
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:50:58AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> [...] the kernel might need to finalize access checks and wire down the
>> pages for DMA before it even knows how much data is available.
>
> That makes no sense except for O_DIRECT wackiness where I doubt anyone
> cares about correctness/standards. Normal file reads should always be
> DMA into the fs cache followed by memcpy to the caller's buffer.
I was thinking of character devices and maybe also sockets. Those don't
go through the fs cache.
And I don't think anyone wants the behavior to vary depending on which
kind of fd you have passed to read().
zw