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Subject[PATCH] Fix 32/64-bit bug in ext3
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The following patch fixes a 32/64-bit bug in ext3. We assign the number
of bytes written to an int instead of a ssize_t, which causes the top
32-bits of the return value from write() to be lopped off. Please
apply to 2.6.0-test tree. Thanks!!

- Ted


# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
# This patch includes the following deltas:
# ChangeSet 1.1595 -> 1.1596
# fs/ext3/file.c 1.13 -> 1.14
#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 03/08/04 tytso@think.thunk.org 1.1596
# Fix 32/64-bit error in ext2_file_write; before, the top 32-bits of
# the return value was getting chopped off.
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff -Nru a/fs/ext3/file.c b/fs/ext3/file.c
--- a/fs/ext3/file.c Mon Aug 4 14:46:41 2003
+++ b/fs/ext3/file.c Mon Aug 4 14:46:41 2003
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
{
struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
- int ret, err;
+ ssize_t ret;
+ int err;

ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);

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