Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2015-11-13

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
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

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).
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