linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix bad offset use

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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:14:56 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>
To:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix bad offset use

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:18:24AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> vfs_writev() updates the offset argument - but the code then passes the
> offset to vfs_fsync_range(). Since offset now points to the offset after
> what was just written, this is probably not what was intended

Agreed, the original code does look fishy and this fix right to me.

Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com> 

- z
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