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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-04 19:20:40 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-04 19:20:40 -0500
commite28cc71572da38a5a12c1cfe4d7032017adccf69 (patch)
treebea9af22a98ea2988a38f5e9fc2467ccbbf3ae70 /arch/i386
parenta020ff412f0ecbb1e4aae1681b287e5785dd77b5 (diff)
Relax the rw_verify_area() error checking.
In particular, allow over-large read- or write-requests to be downgraded to a more reasonable range, rather than considering them outright errors. We want to protect lower layers from (the sadly all too common) overflow conditions, but prefer to do so by chopping the requests up, rather than just refusing them outright. Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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