Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:16:46 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Cornelia Huck wrote: >>>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:35:36 +0900, >>>> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does the attached patch happen to fix the problem? >>>> Indeed it does; thanks! >>> Yeah, you seem to have 32bit off_t. UINT_MAX overflows, so... >> Weird. And we have it opening the directory O_LARGEFILE. >> >> I have no problems with the fix though. > > It's probably because of struct dirent definition used by readdir().
More specifically, d_off field. It's a bit twisted. For the last entry, filp->f_pos gets written into the field and gets wrapped while being copied out to userland or in glibc.
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