Since eventfd's document has clearly stated: A write(2) call adds the 8-byte integer value supplied in its buffer to the counter. However, in the current implementation, the following code snippet did not cause an error: char str[16] = "hello world"; uint64_t value; ssize_t size; int fd; fd = eventfd(0, 0); size = write(fd, &str, strlen(str)); printf("eventfd: test writing a string, size=%ld\n", size); size = read(fd, &value, sizeof(value)); printf("eventfd: test reading as uint64, size=%ld, valus=0x%lX\n", size, value); close(fd); And its output is: eventfd: test writing a string, size=8 eventfd: test reading as uint64, size=8, valus=0x6F77206F6C6C6568 By checking whether count is equal to sizeof(ucnt), such errors could be detected. It also follows the requirements of the manual. Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_10AAA44731FFFA493F9F5501521F07DD4D0A@qq.com Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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