On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:29:44AM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote: > I've thought about it, and that "if" statement can be removed as follows: I think this really misses Christoph's point. He's looking for something more like this: @@ -83,27 +83,23 @@ loff_t iomap_seek_data(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, const struct iomap_ops *ops) { loff_t size = i_size_read(inode); - loff_t length = size - offset; loff_t ret; /* Nothing to be found before or beyond the end of the file. */ if (offset < 0 || offset >= size) return -ENXIO; - while (length > 0) { + while (offset < size) { ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, length, IOMAP_REPORT, ops, &offset, iomap_seek_data_actor); if (ret < 0) return ret; if (ret == 0) - break; + return offset; offset += ret; - length -= ret; } - if (length <= 0) - return -ENXIO; - return offset; + return -ENXIO; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iomap_seek_data); (not even slightly tested)