Re: [PATCH] target: don't call an unmap callback if a range length is zero

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Fri Jan 12 2018 - 17:44:50 EST


Hi Andrei,

Apologies for the delayed follow up.

On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 13:55 -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> If a length of a range is zero, it means there is nothing to unmap
> and we can skip this range.
>
> Here is one more reason, why we have to skip such ranges. An unmap
> callback calls file_operations->fallocate(), but the man page for the
> fallocate syscall says that fallocate(fd, mode, offset, let) returns
> EINVAL, if len is zero. It means that file_operations->fallocate() isn't
> obligated to handle zero ranges too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

Applied.

Thank you.