linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 17/18] cifs: ensure that uncached writes handle unmapped areas correctly

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:45:51 +0200
From:	Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@...rsoft.ru>, 741958@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 17/18] cifs: ensure that uncached writes handle
 unmapped areas correctly

Hi,

On 7 April 2014 03:41, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 00:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> 3.2.57-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> [...]
> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
[...]
> +               /*
> +                * i + 1 now represents the number of pages we actually used in
> +                * the copy phase above.
> +                */
> +               npages = min(npages, i + 1);

I'm having trouble understanding why min() is needed here. It
shouldn't harm either, but I find it confusing.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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