Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754401Ab3HALgb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 07:36:31 -0400 Received: from rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de ([194.94.155.51]:42984 "EHLO rrzmta1.uni-regensburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753720Ab3HALga convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 07:36:30 -0400 Message-Id: <51FA6455020000A100012182@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 12.0.2 Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:36:21 +0200 From: "Ulrich Windl" To: Cc: "Ulrich Windl" Subject: Possible mmap() write() problem in SLES11 SP2 kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1456 Lines: 29 Hi folks! I think I'd let you know (maybe I'm wrong, and the kernel is right): I write a C-program that maps a file into an private writable map. Then I modify the area a bit and use one write to write that area back to a file. This worked fine in SLES11 kernel 3.0.74-0.6.10. However with kernel 3.0.80-0.7 the write() fails with EFAULT if the output file is the same as the input file. The strace is amazingly short (I removed the unrelated calls): open("xxx", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4416, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4416, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f85ac045000 close(3) = 0 open("xxx", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3 write(3, 0x7f85ac045000, 4414) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address) close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7f85ac045000, 4414) = 0 I want to have your attention if this should work, and you get my attention if this should not work. Note that the input file is closed before it's opened for write again. As the output file is typically shorter than the input, I didn't want to use a non-private mapping and a truncate, just in case you wonder... Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/