Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] block: handle invalid lseek returns gracefully

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 03.04.2018 um 06:37 hat Jeff Cody geschrieben:
> In commit 223a23c198787328ae75bc65d84edf5fde33c0b6, we implemented a
> workaround in the gluster driver to handle invalid values returned for
> SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE.
> 
> In some instances, these same invalid values can be seen in the posix
> file handler as well - for example, it has been reported on FUSE gluster
> mounts.
> 
> Calling assert() for these invalid values is overly harsh; we can safely
> return -EIO and allow this case to be treated as a "learned nothing"
> case (e.g., D4 / H4, as commented in the code).
> 
> This patch does the same thing that 223a23c198787 did for gluster.c,
> except in file-posix.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin