linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 07/11] iomap: fix the iomap

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Date:   Tue, 5 May 2020 12:29:14 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jack@...e.cz, tytso@....edu,
        adilger@...ger.ca, amir73il@...il.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] iomap: fix the iomap_fiemap prototype

On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 05:04:01AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
>
>
> On 4/27/20 11:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> iomap_fiemap should take u64 start and len arguments, just like the
>> ->fiemap prototype.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>
> hmm.. I guess,
> it's only ->fiemap ops in inode_operations which has
> start and len arguments as u64.
>
> While such other ops in struct file_operations have the
> arguments of type loff_t. (e.g. ->fallocate, -->llseek etc).
>
> But sure to match the ->fiemap prototype, this patch looks ok to me.

Yes, fiemap is rather weird here, but it matches the ioctl prototype,
so I'd rather pass it on to the method where fiemap_prep will catch
anything that overflows s_maxbytes due to the signeness of loff_t.