According to the POSIX standard, off_t (returned by lseek) is defined as signed integral type no shorter than int. Because our offset variable is defined as unsigned long long, the original check was passed successfully if UINT64_MAX had been used as offset value, due to implicit conversion. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177219 --- src/fdstream.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/fdstream.c b/src/fdstream.c index 5d80fc2..b8ea86e 100644 --- a/src/fdstream.c +++ b/src/fdstream.c @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ virFDStreamOpenFileInternal(virStreamPtr st, } if (offset && - lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) != offset) { + lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) < 0) { virReportSystemError(errno, _("Unable to seek %s to %llu"), path, offset); -- 1.9.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list