On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> > > If a filesystem in the file operations specifies for read and write operations only do_sync_read and do_sync_write without > init aio_read and aio_write, there will be a kernel oops, because the vfs code check the presence of (to read for example) > read OR aio_read method, then it calls read if it's pointer is not null. It's not sufficient because if the read function is > actually a do_sync_read, it calls aio_read but without checking the presence. I think a BUG_ON check can be more useful. Instead of doing a BUG_ON() why can't we simply fall back to the generic_aio functions since most of the fs tend to do so as below. Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 9ba495d..5439bc4 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -225,7 +225,11 @@ ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *pp kiocb.ki_left = len; for (;;) { - ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); + if (filp->f_op->aio_read) + ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); + else + ret = generic_file_aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY) break; wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb); @@ -280,7 +284,10 @@ ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, lof kiocb.ki_left = len; for (;;) { - ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); + if (filp->f_op->aio_write) + ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); + else + ret = generic_file_aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY) break; wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb); -- 1.5.4.3 Thanks - Manish > Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > --- linux-2.6.26.5/fs/read_write.c.orig 2008-08-20 20:11:37.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.26.5/fs/read_write.c 2008-09-16 11:01:13.000000000 +0200 > @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, > kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos; > kiocb.ki_left = len; > > + BUG_ON(!filp->f_op->aio_read); > for (;;) { > ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); > if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY) > @@ -295,6 +296,7 @@ ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, > kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos; > kiocb.ki_left = len; > > + BUG_ON(!filp->f_op->aio_write); > for (;;) { > ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos); > if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY) > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html