linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] BTRFS: Fix lseek return value for error

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Date:	Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:46:08 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	"jeff.liu@...cle.com" <jeff.liu@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] BTRFS: Fix lseek return value for error

> > with an additional improvement if the offset is larger or equal to the
> > file size, return -ENXIO in directly:
> > 
> >                if (offset >= inode->i_size) {
> >                        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> >                        return -ENXIO;
> >                }
> 
> Except that is wrong, because it would then be impossible to write sparse files. 

And also i_size must be always read with i_size_read()

Anyways clearly there's a problem in btrfs land with merging fixes in time.
Is anyone collecting patches while Chris is gone?

-Andi

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