From: Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: do_div considered harmful
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:31:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2DEFA5.2010700@austin.rr.com> (raw)
I have made a change to fix this in fs/cifs/inode.c and a similar
problem in fs/cifs/file.c
(and a change to fs/cifs/cifsfs.c to better match the blocksize bits and
blocksize default).
It is (version 0.8.7 of the cifs vfs) in
bk://cifs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5cifs and I am testing it now.
>> Similarly, I find in fs/cifs/inode.c>
>> inode->i_blocks = do_div(findData.NumOfBytes,
inode->i_blksize);
>
>This should be
>
> int blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
>
> inode->i_blocks = (findData.NumOfBytes + blocksize - 1)
> >> inode->i_blkbits;
next reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 5:31 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-04 5:31 Steve French [this message]
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2003-08-04 9:46 do_div considered harmful Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-04 2:03 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-04 2:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-04 5:54 ` Linus Torvalds
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