[PATCH 2.4] Fix rlimit check in precheck_file_write()

[Jason Uhlenkott]

Remove a broken assumption that rlimits are 32 bits which can cause
nasty things to happen on 64-bit machines if we try to write past the
2^32-1th character of a file and a larger file size limit exists.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@xxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.4.29-pre3.orig/mm/filemap.c	2004-11-17 03:54:22.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.4.29-pre3/mm/filemap.c	2004-12-22 13:41:46.000000000 -0800
@@ -3088,9 +3088,9 @@
 			send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (pos > 0xFFFFFFFFULL || *count > limit - (u32)pos) {
+		if (*count > limit - pos) {
 			/* send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0); */
-			*count = limit - (u32)pos;
+			*count = limit - pos;
 		}
 	}
 
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