From c2ec66828fd253802abb912668f4bf9597e3c898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:20:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL An AIO read or write should return -EINVAL if the offset is negative. This check matches the one in pread and pwrite. This was found by the libaio test suite. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Zach Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/aio.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 26c1930889..b74c567383 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1329,6 +1329,10 @@ static ssize_t aio_rw_vect_retry(struct kiocb *iocb) opcode = IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV; } + /* This matches the pread()/pwrite() logic */ + if (iocb->ki_pos < 0) + return -EINVAL; + do { ret = rw_op(iocb, &iocb->ki_iovec[iocb->ki_cur_seg], iocb->ki_nr_segs - iocb->ki_cur_seg, -- 2.39.5