From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix file position for hugetlbfs-read-support
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:37:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191364651.6106.52.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b040c32a0710021530o7a8ae28aybd65f8f4d677029@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:30 -0700, Ken Chen wrote:
> While working on a related area, I ran into a bug in hugetlbfs file
> read support that is currently in -mm tree
> (hugetlbfs-read-support.patch).
>
> The problem is that hugetlb file position wasn't updated in
> hugetlbfs_read(), so sys_read() will always read from same file
> location. A simple "cp" command that reads file until EOF will never
> terminate. Fix it by updating the ppos at the end of
> hugetlbfs_read().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
>
Acked-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Thank you.
Thanks,
Badari
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