linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RAMFS NOMMU]: a bug in ramfs_nommu_resize function, passing old size to vmtruncate

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 11:35:28 +0800
From:	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
To:	bryan.wu@...log.com
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RAMFS NOMMU]: a bug in ramfs_nommu_resize function,
	passing old size to vmtruncate

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:31 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> It should be pass "newsize" to vmtruncate function to modify the
> inode->i_size,
> while the old size is passed to vmtruncate.
> 
> This bug was catched by LTP truncate test case on Blackfin platform.
> After it was fixed, the LTP truncate test case passed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> ---
>  fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
> index 3b481d5..9345a46 100644
> --- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
> +++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
> @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int ramfs_nommu_resize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize, loff_t size)
>                         return ret;
>         }
>  
> -       ret = vmtruncate(inode, size);
> +       ret = vmtruncate(inode, newsize);
>  
>         return ret;
>  }

David: 

Sorry for sending this email several times , my git-send-email got some
problem.

Thanks
-Bryan Wu
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