On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:19 +0100, David Howells wrote: > The start and end points passed to block_prepare_write() delimit the region of > the page that is going to be modified. This means that prepare_write() > doesn't need to fill it in if the page is not up to date. Really? Is it _really_ going to be modified? Even if the pointer userspace gave to write() is bogus, and is going to fault half-way through the copy_from_user()? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html