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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heinz.Mauelshagen@t-online.de
Subject: Re: Bug in /proc/lvm/global (garbage printed)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:55:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011110175507.L1778@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011110120619.A10459@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011110120619.A10459@suse.de>; from kukuk@suse.de on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:06:19PM +0100

On Nov 10, 2001  12:06 +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> The problem is in the _proc_read_global function. This function does
> not use the "page" parameter to return the data. Instead it allocates
> it's own buffer and change to "start" parameter to point to it.
> 
> --- drivers/md/lvm-fs.c	2001/11/09 19:00:38	1.1
> +++ drivers/md/lvm-fs.c	2001/11/09 20:50:16
> @@ -482,11 +480,15 @@
>  		buf = NULL;
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> -	*start = &buf[pos];
> -	if (sz - pos < count)
> +	/* *start = &buf[pos]; */
> +	if (sz - pos < count) {
> +		memcpy (page, &buf[pos], sz - pos);
>  		return sz - pos;
> -	else
> +        }
> +	else {
> +		memcpy (page, &buf[pos], count);
>  		return count;
> +	}
>  
>  #undef LVM_PROC_BUF
>  }

What version of LVM do you have?  This code looks different than mine.
The file lvm-fs.c does not exist in Linus kernels, only in patched kernels.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-11  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-10 11:06 Bug in /proc/lvm/global (garbage printed) Thorsten Kukuk
2001-11-10 13:38 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-11-11  0:55 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-11  7:36   ` Thorsten Kukuk

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