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authorAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2004-11-11 11:18:10 +0000
committerAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2005-05-04 14:24:16 +0100
commitda28438cae9a271c5c232177f81dfb243de9b7fa (patch)
tree40817e52c229dbb288f6425b2056c1ad61ad6470 /fs/ntfs/attrib.c
parent8800cea62025a5209d110c5fa5990429239d6eee (diff)
NTFS: Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set().
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/attrib.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs/attrib.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
index 1ff7f90a18b..7d668466dcd 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
@@ -1127,6 +1127,10 @@ int ntfs_attr_record_resize(MFT_RECORD *m, ATTR_RECORD *a, u32 new_size)
* byte offset @ofs inside the attribute with the constant byte @val.
*
* This function is effectively like memset() applied to an ntfs attribute.
+ * Note thie function actually only operates on the page cache pages belonging
+ * to the ntfs attribute and it marks them dirty after doing the memset().
+ * Thus it relies on the vm dirty page write code paths to cause the modified
+ * pages to be written to the mft record/disk.
*
* Return 0 on success and -errno on error. An error code of -ESPIPE means
* that @ofs + @cnt were outside the end of the attribute and no write was
@@ -1155,7 +1159,7 @@ int ntfs_attr_set(ntfs_inode *ni, const s64 ofs, const s64 cnt, const u8 val)
end = ofs + cnt;
end_ofs = end & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
/* If the end is outside the inode size return -ESPIPE. */
- if (unlikely(end > VFS_I(ni)->i_size)) {
+ if (unlikely(end > i_size_read(VFS_I(ni)))) {
ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Request exceeds end of attribute.");
return -ESPIPE;
}