>This patch fixes the truncate/ftruncate oopses with mandatory locking
>enabled. The problem with ftruncate is that the local variable fl is
>not initialized properly in locks_mandatory_area that it misbehaves at
>various places like locks_insert_block. And the problem with truncate
>is that the filp variable is NULL at posix_lock_file. The NULL value
>comes from do_sys_truncate.
>
locks_mandatory_area needed a bit more tweaking to allow correct error
handling, as well as
adherence to the O_NONBLOCK flag if/when used. Merged the original patch
with my updates,
and updated the bug report.
>The bug report and details can be found at,
>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280
- Robbie
Robert V. Williamson <robbiew@us.ibm.com>
Linux Test Project
IBM Linux Technology Center
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
(See attached file: bug280.patch)
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