Bring linux-user write(2) handling into line with linux for the case
of a 0-byte write with a NULL buffer. Based on a patch originally
written by Zhuowei Zhang.
Addresses https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1716292.
>From Zhuowei Zhang's patch (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg08073.html):
Linux returns success for the special case of calling write with a
zero-length NULL buffer: compiling and running
int main() {
ssize_t ret = write(STDOUT_FILENO, NULL, 0);
fprintf(stderr, "write returned %ld\n", ret);
return 0;
}
gives "write returned 0" when run directly, but "write returned
-1" in QEMU.
This commit checks for this situation and returns success if
found.
Subsequent discussion raised the following questions (and my answers):
- Q. Should TARGET_NR_read pass through to safe_read in this
situation too?
A. I'm wary of changing unrelated code to the specific problem I'm
addressing. TARGET_NR_read is already consistent with Linux for
this case.
- Q. Do pread64/pwrite64 need to be changed similarly?
A. Experiment suggests not: both linux and linux-user yield -1 for
NULL 0-length reads/writes.
Signed-off-by: Tony Garnock-Jones <tonygarnockjones@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Message-Id: <20180908182205.GB409@mornington.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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