[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ocfs2: When zero extending, do it by page.

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:44:59AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 07:16 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
> >+	BUG_ON(abs_to>  ((index + 1)<<  PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT));
> Sorry for not noticing this yesterday night. This can't work and
> will overflow and bug out. I met with a similar bug in reflink test.
> See commit d622b89.

	Good catch.  It's obvious, now that you mention it.

> >+	/* We know that zero_from is block aligned */
> >+	for (block_start = zero_from;
> >+	     (block_start<  PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)&&  (block_start<  zero_to);
> >+	     block_start = block_end) {
> Do we really need to check block_start < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE? I think
> just check block_start < zero_to is enough since you have limit
> zero_to with PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. What's more, it looks more natural(see
> below), does it?
> 
> 	for (block_start = zero_form; block_start < zero_to; block_start =
> block_end) {

	Yup.  The code looked different halfway through, so I didn't
realize I was checking the same thing twice.

Joel

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