Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] poll() exits too early with EFAULT if 1st arg is NULL

From: "Joachim Schmitz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:28:47 +0200

Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> If poll() is used as a milli-second sleep, like in help.c, by passing
> a NULL in the 1st and a 0 in the 2nd arg, it exits with EFAULT.
>
> As per Paolo Bonzini, the original author, this is a bug and to be
> fixed like in this commit, which is not to exit if the 2nd arg is 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joachim Schmitz <[email-masked]>
> ---
> compat/win32/poll.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/compat/win32/poll.c b/compat/win32/poll.c
> index 403eaa7..9e7a25c 100644
> --- a/compat/win32/poll.c
> +++ b/compat/win32/poll.c
> @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ poll (struct pollfd *pfd, nfds_t nfd, int timeout)
>
>   /* EFAULT is not necessary to implement, but let's do it in the
>      simplest case. */
> -  if (!pfd)
> +  if (!pfd && nfd)
>     {
>       errno = EFAULT;
>       return -1;

Actually this one is not needed for win32 (nor does win32 suffer from a 
similar bug), so should probably better get added after patch 2/2 (or as 
part of it), the move to compat/poll/.

Bye, Jojo