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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: question about dlmfs_file_read()
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:50:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100423205037.GC10637@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100418193201.GD7920@bicker>

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:32:01PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I was looking through the code for something unrelated and I got
> confused by this.
> 
> fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c dlmfs_file_read()
>    261          /* don't read past the lvb */
>    262          if ((count + *ppos) > i_size_read(inode))
>    263                  readlen = i_size_read(inode) - *ppos;
>    264          else
>    265                  readlen = count - *ppos;
> 
> 	Shouldn't "readlen" just be "count" here?  What prevents it from 
> 	being a negative number?
> 
>    266
>    267          lvb_buf = kmalloc(readlen, GFP_NOFS);
> 
> Anyway, this code has been around for a long time so I'm probably
> missing something.  I was just curious.

	No, I think you're right.  Mark, Sunil, anyone?

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-18 19:32 [Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: question about dlmfs_file_read() Dan Carpenter
2010-04-23 20:50 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2010-04-23 22:06   ` Sunil Mushran
2010-04-23 22:27     ` Joel Becker

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