RE: [PATCH] block: create ioctl to discard-or-zeroout a range of blocks
From: Seymour, Shane M <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-12 00:56:02
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From: Seymour, Shane M <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-12 00:56:02
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which would make the other checks I suggested to ensure that neither start or end were more than (uint64_t)LLONG_MAX unnecessary.
My apologies I was wrong about what I said above - after thinking about it for longer you still need to make sure that at least len is not greater than (uint64_t)LLONG_MAX because in the calculation: if (start > (uint64_t)LLONG_MAX - len) return -EINVAL; if len was more than (uint64_t)LLONG_MAX it would underflow and become a very large positive number and start would never be greater than that (and I said end when I should have said len).