Re: [PATCH] io_getevents.2: Add EINVAL for case of timeout parameter out of range

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Hi, Michael.

On 2020/4/16 20:12, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Zhangyi,
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 04:57, zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> io_[p]getevents syscall should return -EINVAL if timeout is out of
>> range, update description of this error return value.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1564451504-27906-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> 
> It appears that the kernel patch to implement this check was never
> merged. Do you know what happened to it?
> 

I'm not sure why this patch was not merged and pinged it last mounth,
but there is no response.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg164111.html

Hi, Al.

Any chance to apply below kernel patch?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1564451504-27906-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
Yi.

>> Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  man2/io_getevents.2 | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/man2/io_getevents.2 b/man2/io_getevents.2
>> index 0eb4b385e..5560bb8ee 100644
>> --- a/man2/io_getevents.2
>> +++ b/man2/io_getevents.2
>> @@ -73,8 +73,9 @@ Interrupted by a signal handler; see
>>  .TP
>>  .B EINVAL
>>  \fIctx_id\fP is invalid.
>> -\fImin_nr\fP is out of range or \fInr\fP is
>> -out of range.
>> +\fImin_nr\fP is out of range or \fInr\fP is out of range, or
>> +\fItimeout\fP is out of range (\fItv_sec\fP was less than zero, or
>> +\fItv_nsec\fP was not less than 1,000,000,000).
>>  .TP
>>  .B ENOSYS
>>  .BR io_getevents ()
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
> 
> 




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