Bug 703094

Summary:	write system call returns with 0 when it should return with EFBIG. - rhel5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Eryu Guan <eguan>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Don Howard <dhoward>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Filesystem QE <fs-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.7	CC:	dejohnso, dhoward, jwest, kzhang, rwheeler
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	646498	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-02-11 13:27:05 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	646498
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Comment 1 Eryu Guan 2011-05-09 09:32:23 UTC

This fails on rhel5.7 2.6.18-259.el5 kernel

[root@ibm-x3550m3-02 646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig]# make run
chmod a+x ./runtest.sh
chmod +x ./reproducer.sh
./runtest.sh
/mnt/tests/kernel/filesystems/646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig/reproducer.sh
Running ./reproducer.sh As root: 
Write should return EFBIG, returned
write(1, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 0
...finished running ./reproducer.sh, exit code=1
/kernel/filesystems/646498-write-doesnt-return-efbig result: FAIL

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-01-09 14:24:13 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-30 05:53:18 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.