linuxolator problem on i386

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> (from Wed, 19 Sep 2007  
15:25:46 +0200):

>> > @@ -442,8 +443,7 @@
>>
>> >         off = fp->f_offset;
>>
>> > -       buflen = max(LINUX_DIRBLKSIZ, nbytes);
>> > -       buflen = min(buflen, MAXBSIZE);
>> > +       buflen = max(buflen, MAXBSIZE);
>> >         buf = malloc(buflen, M_TEMP, M_WAITOK);
>> >         vn_lock(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY, td);
>>
>> No. It limits buflen to which is smaller, buflen or MAXBSIZE.
>
> yes... brain does not work real good today :(
>
> I wonder why the limitation is there.

Isn't this the code where we made sure that we don't use more buffer  
than we have? In some part of the code we specially made sure that we  
don't overflow either the FreeBSD size nor the linux size.

You could check if nbytes is with or without the \0.

Bye,
Alexander.

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