linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix off-by-one error when writing back pages before dio read

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 18:08:31 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix off-by-one error when writing back pages
 before dio read

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:53:05AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 22-05-17 18:34:41, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > 
> > The 'lend' argument of filemap_write_and_wait_range() is inclusive, so
> > we need to subtract 1 from pos + count.
> > 
> > Note that 'count' is guaranteed to be nonzero since
> > ext4_file_read_iter() returns early when given a 0 count.
> > 
> > Fixes: 16c54688592c ("ext4: Allow parallel DIO reads")
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Yeah. You can add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted