Re: do_sendfile ppos check ...

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> 
> which passes ppos as NULL, which in turn leads to an oops ...

But do_sendfile will set ppos to &in_file->f_pos if it's NULL.
Why isn't that working?

> @@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys_sendfile(int out_
>                return ret;
>        }
> 
> -       return do_sendfile(out_fd, in_fd, NULL, count, 0);
> +       pos = 0;
> +       return do_sendfile(out_fd, in_fd, &pos, count, MAX_NON_LFS);
> }

The last argument is meant to be zero if you check the history.

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