diff options
| author | Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | 2006-06-30 01:55:55 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-30 11:25:37 -0700 |
| commit | 190f4939222b8c07cd62a20e1ce0c7a97fffde99 (patch) | |
| tree | f3de1035774a1c6358231903d847f1313db7bf0b /arch/um | |
| parent | c2b7a4bb30008dc256d63802e02b6fb950958443 (diff) | |
[PATCH] uml: fix off-by-one bug in VM file creation
Fix an off-by-one bug in temp file creation. Seeking to the desired length
and writing a byte resulted in the file being one byte longer than expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c index d24d1a960523..560c8063c77c 100644 --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c @@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ int create_tmp_file(unsigned long long len) exit(1); } - if (lseek64(fd, len, SEEK_SET) < 0) { - perror("os_seek_file"); + /* Seek to len - 1 because writing a character there will + * increase the file size by one byte, to the desired length. + */ + if (lseek64(fd, len - 1, SEEK_SET) < 0) { + perror("os_seek_file"); exit(1); } |