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 >> > >
