Bug#741958: [PATCH 3.2 17/18] cifs: ensure that uncached writes handle unmapped areas correctly

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 7 April 2014 03:41, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> 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
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