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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:59:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] vfs: clear to the end of the buffer on reads
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>, Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:17:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > READ is zero so this test is always false.  (rw = READ) was intended.
> 
> Actually, that really *is* a bitmask, but yeah, the test is wrong.
> 
> The correct test is
> 
>   ((rw & RW_MASK) = READ)
> 

Ah.  Of course.  I'll send a v2.

regards,
dan carpenter