Cyril, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > The io_getevents() may cause segfault when called with invalid ctx_id. > > For reference see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-aio&m=130089887002435&w=2 > > The attached patch adds BUGS paragraph into corresponding manpage. I've applied a slightly different version of this patch, as below. Thanks Cheers, Michael PS In general, inline patches are easier tor me to process. --- a/man2/io_getevents.2 +++ b/man2/io_getevents.2 @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ then the return value follows the usual conventions for indicating an error: \-1, with .I errno set to a (positive) value that indicates the error. +.SH BUGS +An invalid +.IR ctx_id +may cause a segmentation fault instead of genenerating the error +.BR EINVAL . .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP .BR io_cancel (2), -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
