Linus, could you please merge the following VFS fix, sent to Al etc. on August 30 and resent on September 14, with no reaction? Thanks, Andreas -- In generic_file_llseek_size, return -ENXIO for negative offsets as well as offsets beyond EOF. This affects filesystems which don't implement SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA internally, possibly because they don't support holes. Fixes xfstest generic/448. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/read_write.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index a2b9a47235c5..f0d4b16873e8 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ generic_file_llseek_size(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence, * In the generic case the entire file is data, so as long as * offset isn't at the end of the file then the offset is data. */ - if (offset >= eof) + if ((unsigned long long)offset >= eof) return -ENXIO; break; case SEEK_HOLE: @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ generic_file_llseek_size(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence, * There is a virtual hole at the end of the file, so as long as * offset isn't i_size or larger, return i_size. */ - if (offset >= eof) + if ((unsigned long long)offset >= eof) return -ENXIO; offset = eof; break; -- 2.13.5