Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read() | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:25:26 +0200 |
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> We found suspicious-looking code in generic_file_splice_read() back in > February. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/443. I suspect that patch > (if it works) will address the truncate lockup as well - it zaps the loop > entirely. > > Unfortunately Allard never got back to us (probably because he's running > 2.6.24 which has a quite different generic_file_splice_read()) and the > patch didn't get anywhere. > > Here it is again. > > It needs a changelog. > > Nobody has tested this at all, to my knowledge.
Patch looks sane, and fixes the fsx-linux/NFS/fuse lockup, as expected.
Thanks, Miklos
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