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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>, "Qu Wenruo" <wqu@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, u-boot@lists.denx.de,
	"Dominique Martinet" <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH U-BOOT 3/3] btrfs: btfs_file_read: zero trailing data if no extent was found
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:43:16 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZD4DxM9lCGnAsSzN@codewreck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef27f8e9-df8f-316a-eb90-e2227572c910@gmx.com>

Qu Wenruo wrote on Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:04:56AM +0800:
> > This is a theorical fix only and hasn't been tested on a file that
> > actually runs this code path.
> 
> IIRC there is a memset() at the very beginning of btrfs_file_read() to set
> the whole dest memory to zero.

Right, sorry.

I'll drop this and send a new patch that removes the duplicate memset
(at "The whole file is a hole" comment) instead as seeing multiple
memsets is what made me think it'd be necessary without thinking; that
can be done even if we rework the function a bit in later cleanups...

-- 
Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus

      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-18 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-18  1:17 [PATCH U-BOOT 0/3] btrfs: fix and improve read code Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  1:17 ` [PATCH U-BOOT 1/3] btrfs: fix offset within btrfs_read_extent_reg() Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  1:58   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  2:05     ` Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  2:16       ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  2:20       ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  1:17 ` [PATCH U-BOOT 2/3] btrfs: btrfs_file_read: allow opportunistic read until the end Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  2:02   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  2:41     ` Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  2:53       ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  3:07         ` Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  3:21           ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  3:53             ` Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  5:17               ` Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  7:15               ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  1:17 ` [PATCH U-BOOT 3/3] btrfs: btfs_file_read: zero trailing data if no extent was found Dominique Martinet
2023-04-18  2:04   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-04-18  2:43     ` Dominique Martinet [this message]

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