On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 02:36:57PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger ([EMAIL 
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> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 13:51, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > I think this should be -EFAULT instead of -ERESTARTSYS, right?
> >
> > I have no strong feeling on what must be returned in that case.
> > As far as I see, copy*user can fail due to absence of the next
> > destination page, so -ERESTARTSYS makes sence, but if failure happens due
> > to process size limitation, -EFAULT is correct.
> 
> If I am not completely mistaken ERESTARTSYS is wrong. 
> include/linux/errno.h says userspace should never see ERESTARTSYS, therefore 
> we should only return it if we were interrupted by a signal as do_signal 
> takes care of ERESTARTSYS. Furthermore, copy*user transparently faults in 
> necessary pages as long as the address is valid in the user context. 

Actually userspace will not see ERESTARTSYS, when it is returned from
syscall.

> > Let's change it to -EFAULT.
> 
> Thanks :-)

No problem. I've commited this change already.
 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Gr????en / Best Regards
> 
> Christian Borntraeger
> Linux Software Engineer zSeries Linux & Virtualization

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        Evgeniy Polyakov
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