[PATCH] tmpfs symlink size bug

Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au)
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:38:26 +1100


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Since 2.4.12 the size of symlinks on tmpfs has been off by one. The
following patch corrects that error.

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Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Index: mm/shmem.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/gondolin/herbert/src/CVS/debian/kernel-source-2.4/mm/shmem.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.16 diff -u -r1.1.1.16 shmem.c --- mm/shmem.c 17 Oct 2001 21:19:20 -0000 1.1.1.16 +++ mm/shmem.c 27 Oct 2001 23:34:51 -0000 @@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ inode = dentry->d_inode; info = SHMEM_I(inode); - inode->i_size = len; + inode->i_size = len - 1; if (len <= sizeof(struct shmem_inode_info)) { /* do it inline */ memcpy(info, symname, len);

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