Re: [PATCH 2/3] spufs: fix another off-by-one bug in mbox_read

From: Will Schmidt
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 15:53:52 EST


On Tue, 2006-24-10 at 21:07 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:42, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On 10/24/06, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > spu_acquire(ctx);
> > > - for (count = 0; count <= len; count += 4, udata++) {
> > > + for (count = 0; (count + 4) <= len; count += 4, udata++) {
> >
> > Wouldn't this be more obvious as
> >
> > for (count = 0, count < (len / 4); count++, udata++) {
> >
> > And then do count * 4 if you need the actual index somewhere. Hmm?
>
> Count is the return value from a write() file operation. I find it
> more readable to update that every time I do one put_user(), to
> the exact value, than calculating the return code later.

Hey Arnd,
just curiosity.. What was the behavior before this patch? just
leaving a few (0 - 3) characters behind?


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