Re: [PATCH] loop: don't increment p->offset with (size_t) -EINVAL

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 04 2009, Roel Kluin wrote:
> Upon a 'transfer error block' size is set to -EINVAL, but this becomes positive
> since size is unsigned: p->offset still gets incremented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index edbaac6..bf03455 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -392,8 +392,7 @@ lo_splice_actor(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf,
>  	struct loop_device *lo = p->lo;
>  	struct page *page = buf->page;
>  	sector_t IV;
> -	size_t size;
> -	int ret;
> +	int size, ret;
>  
>  	ret = buf->ops->confirm(pipe, buf);
>  	if (unlikely(ret))

Good catch! Applied.

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Jens Axboe