On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:02:49AM +1100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 00:00, Neil Horman wrote: > > As it is currently written, sys_select checks its return code to convert > > ERESTARTNOHAND to EINTR. However, the check is within an if (tvp) clause, > > and so if select is called from userspace with a NULL timeval, then it is > > possible for the ERESTARTNOHAND errno to leak into userspace, which is > > incorrect. This patch moves that check outside of the conditional, and > > prevents the errno leak. > > > Patch looks good to me. > > -Andi Thanks for the response, but there is some question as to this patchs validity. I'm waiting on a reproducer to try and veryify the problem.
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