From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:55:55 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] uml: fix off-by-one bug in VM file creation
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=190f4939222b8c07cd62a20e1ce0c7a97fffde99;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

[PATCH] uml: fix off-by-one bug in VM file creation

Fix an off-by-one bug in temp file creation.  Seeking to the desired length
and writing a byte resulted in the file being one byte longer than expected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
index d24d1a960523..560c8063c77c 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
@@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ int create_tmp_file(unsigned long long len)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-        if (lseek64(fd, len, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
- 		perror("os_seek_file");
+	/* Seek to len - 1 because writing a character there will
+	 * increase the file size by one byte, to the desired length.
+	 */
+	if (lseek64(fd, len - 1, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
+		perror("os_seek_file");
 		exit(1);
 	}