linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2image: fix invalid lseek error detection

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Message-ID: <20110914172800.GH3429@dhcp-172-31-195-159.cam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:28:00 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2image: fix invalid lseek error detection

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> In flush_l2_cache() we are using ext2fs_llseek() however we do not
> properly detect the error code returned from the function, because we
> are assigning it into ULL variable, hence we will not see negative
> values.
> 
> Fix this by changing the type of the variable to ext2_loff_t which is
> signed and hence will store negative values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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