Hi Jonathan,
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 05:00:26PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 03:53:33PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 12:12:45 +0200
> > > Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Fix code flow problem and floating point exception caused by improper
> > > > directory stream positioning.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: <e58537ccce733> ("staging: iio: update example application.")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Hi Petre,
> > >
> > > This doesn't really explain 'why' seeekdir(dp, 0) is wrong.
> > > My assumption is that telldir() would not have returned 0 on this particular
> > > system? Could you confirm that and update the message to explain why
> > > seekdir(dp, 0) is not equivalent to rewinddir(dp).
> >
> > it looks like there is a 32-bit specific bug in one of the glibc patches that
> > the stable Gentoo Linux is using [1]. telldir returns (u32)(-1) if seekdir is
> > used which ends up in a floating point exception.
> >
> > it so happens that the rewinddir() function (which is equivalent) works
> > correctly. so it is a fix for Gentoo users and should not impact anyone else.
> >
> > [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31212
> >
> > my very best regards,
> > peter
>
> I'd be happy to take the same change as a cleanup if you want to resubmit it
> with a different patch description.
sure, I will resubmit it, but tomorrow morning.
best regards,
peter
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