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

[Lauro Ramos Venancio]

I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be
applied on the qemu head.
They fix some LTP tests.

Lauro

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.
>
>