Bug 814296

Summary:	writev() returns 32-bit wrapped value on ext4 on x86_64 in certain cases
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Jouko Orava <jouko.orava>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2	CC:	esandeen
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-04-19 14:45:32 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jouko Orava 2012-04-19 14:30:36 UTC

Reported by Jouni Siren to the linux-ext4 mailing list,
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=133424246404043&w=2

fixed by a one-line patch to fs/ext4/file.c,
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=133424653606040&w=2

verified on 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 kernels,
and verified the patch fixes the problem on said kernels,
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=133484292912874&w=2

Comment 2 Eric Sandeen 2012-04-19 14:45:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 814302 ***