Re: [PATCH] syscalls: fix offset type of ksys_ftruncate

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 08:32:40 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:48 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After the commit below, truncate on i586 uses ksys_ftruncate. But
> ksys_ftruncate truncates the offset to unsigned long. So switch the type
> of offset to loff_t which is what the lower do_sys_ftruncate expects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 121b32a58a3a (x86/entry/32: Use IA32-specific wrappers for syscalls taking 64-bit arguments)
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> index 63ffa6dc9da3..e97ca179d0dc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> @@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ static inline long ksys_lchown(const char __user *filename, uid_t user,
>
> extern long do_sys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, loff_t length, int small);
>
> -static inline long ksys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, unsigned long length)
> +static inline long ksys_ftruncate(unsigned int fd, loff_t length)
> {
> return do_sys_ftruncate(fd, length, 1);
> }

Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>