Re: Nasty 2.6 sendfile() bug / regression; affects vsftpd

[chris]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Your patch is horribly ugly. How about this (much simpler) patch instead?

Hey, it's a guaranteed way to get your attention ;-)

> Can you test that this one-liner fixes the issue for you?

It certainly does.

Cheers
Chris

> ----
> --- 1.37/fs/read_write.c	Mon Apr 12 10:54:20 2004
> +++ edited/fs/read_write.c	Sat Apr 17 20:09:41 2004
> @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>
> -	return do_sendfile(out_fd, in_fd, NULL, count, MAX_NON_LFS);
> +	return do_sendfile(out_fd, in_fd, NULL, count, 0);
>  }
>
>  asmlinkage ssize_t sys_sendfile64(int out_fd, int in_fd, loff_t __user *offset, size_t count)
>
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