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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hughd@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: let lseek return ENXIO with a negative offset
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 15:19:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181107151955.777fcbcf9a5932677e245287@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1540434176-14349-1-git-send-email-yuyufen@huawei.com>

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:22:56 +0800 Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com> wrote:

> For now, the others filesystems, such as ext4, f2fs, ubifs,
> all of them return ENXIO when lseek with a negative offset.

When using SEEK_DATA and/or SEEK_HOLE, yes?

> It is better to let tmpfs return ENXIO too. After that, tmpfs
> can also pass generic/448.

generic/448 is, I assume, part of xfstests?

So I'll rewrite the changelog as follows.  Please review carefully.



Subject: tmpfs: make lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEK_HOLE) return ENXIO with a negative offset

Other filesystems such as ext4, f2fs and ubifs all return ENXIO when
lseek (SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE) requests a negative offset.

man 2 lseek says

:      EINVAL whence  is  not  valid.   Or: the resulting file offset would be
:             negative, or beyond the end of a seekable device.
:
:      ENXIO  whence is SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE, and the file offset is  beyond
:             the end of the file.


Make tmpfs return ENXIO under these circumstances as well.  After this,
tmpfs also passes xfstests's generic/448.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-07 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25  2:22 Yufen Yu
2018-11-01  7:13 ` William Kucharski
2018-11-07 23:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-11-08 10:46   ` William Kucharski
2018-11-08 23:07     ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-09  3:52       ` William Kucharski

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