Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-19

Re: [PATCH 3/3] truncate()/ftruncate() fix length argument on ia32 emulation.

From: Heiko Carstens <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-19 13:16:37
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
move signed-extended int to long, because of signed test.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <redacted>
[...]
+asmlinkage long compat_sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, int length)
+{
+	return sys_ftruncate(fd, length);
+}
That seems to be wrong... just look at this patch I sent two years
ago (which btw. introduced the compat truncate sign extension bug
on some architecutures).

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg08633.html
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