Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] zero/NULL fixes.

[Thayne Harbaugh]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:14 -0300, Lauro Ramos Venancio wrote:
> I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be
> applied on the qemu head.
> They fix some LTP tests.

Tonight I'll be pulling my local tree up to CVS current and I'll resend
any remaining EFAULT and zero/NULL patches that haven't been included.
Right now I simply haven't tracked which patches have been incorporated
and which ones are pending.

Thanks for the interest.

> 2007/12/11, Thayne Harbaugh <address@hidden>:
> > The EFAULT changes use a result of NULL to detect a failure from lock*()
> > functions.  There are syscalls that accept NULL as a valid argument and
> > now the syscalls return -EFAULT.  These patches allow appropriate
> > syscalls to accept NULL.
> >
> > I have put together a regression test harness wrapped around the Linux
> > Test Project (LTP).  I've been able to find regressions that were caused
> > by the EFAULT changes.  It's more exhaustive than running an ls
> > executable and has helped find existing bugs as well as regressions.  It
> > will run regression tests for multiple architectures.
> >
> > I'll be sending a few more patches for this same type of regression.  I
> > should also be sending in the test harness once I've worked out a few
> > more details.
> >
> >