[PATCH] loop: don't increment p->offset with (size_t) -EINVAL

From: Roel Kluin
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 08:29:24 EST


Upon a 'transfer error block' size is set to -EINVAL, but this becomes positive
since size is unsigned: p->offset still gets incremented.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index edbaac6..bf03455 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -392,8 +392,7 @@ lo_splice_actor(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf,
struct loop_device *lo = p->lo;
struct page *page = buf->page;
sector_t IV;
- size_t size;
- int ret;
+ int size, ret;

ret = buf->ops->confirm(pipe, buf);
if (unlikely(ret))
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