Re: 32-bit bug in iovec iterator changes

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Sun Jun 22 2014 - 07:50:35 EST


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 02:00:32AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
> PS: I agree that it's worth careful commenting, obviously, but
> before sending it to Linus (*with* comments) I want to get a
> confirmation that this one-liner actually fixes what Ted is seeing.
> I have reproduced it here, and that change makes the breakage go
> away in my testing, but I'd like to make sure that we are seeing the
> same thing. Ted?

Hep, that fixes things. Thanks for explaining what was going on!

- Ted
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