Re: [PATCH 01/67] mm: Stop filemap_read() from grabbing a superfluous page

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Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +		isize = i_size_read(inode);
> > +		if (unlikely(iocb->ki_pos >= isize))
> > +			goto put_pages;
> > +
> 
> Is there a good reason to assign to isize here?  I'd rather not,
> because it complicates analysis, and a later change might look at
> the isize read here, not realising it was a racy use.  So I'd
> rather see:

If we don't set isize, the loop will never end.  Actually, maybe we can just
break out at that point rather than going to put_pages.

David

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