[erlang-patches] fix for ei mishandling of writev iovec buffers

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

Hi Steve,

Looks like a good and valid patch.

I'll try to sneak it past Björn and into the release (the deadline was a 
week ago).

Regards,
Björn-Egil
Erlang/OTP

On 2010-09-11 08:13, Steve Vinoski wrote:
> This patch fixes a data corruption problem with ei where it mishandles
> iovec buffers on platforms that support writev. When writing to the
> socket blocks, ei tries to adjust its iovecs based on how much data
> it's already successfully written so it can pick up where it left off
> when the socket is write-ready again, but it forgets to adjust one
> particular pointer. The result is that the same data gets written
> multiple times, corrupting what the cnode sends. This only occurs when
> the message size is much greater than the amount of data ei can write
> to the socket without blocking. I detected the problem when sending
> large binaries from a cnode to a regular node.
>
> git fetch git://github.com/vinoski/otp.git ei-writev
>
> I hope it's not too late for inclusion into R14B, especially given
> that the fix is so simple and obvious.
>
> --steve
>
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