Re: [PATCH 3.2 17/18] cifs: ensure that uncached writes handle unmapped areas correctly

From: Raphael Geissert
Date: Mon Apr 07 2014 - 09:46:27 EST


Hi,

On 7 April 2014 03:41, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 00:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> 3.2.57-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> [...]
> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
[...]
> + /*
> + * i + 1 now represents the number of pages we actually used in
> + * the copy phase above.
> + */
> + npages = min(npages, i + 1);

I'm having trouble understanding why min() is needed here. It
shouldn't harm either, but I find it confusing.

Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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