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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:38:26 +1100
To: hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs symlink size bug
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Since 2.4.12 the size of symlinks on tmpfs has been off by one.  The
following patch corrects that error.
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Index: mm/shmem.c
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RCS file: /home/gondolin/herbert/src/CVS/debian/kernel-source-2.4/mm/shmem.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.16
diff -u -r1.1.1.16 shmem.c
--- mm/shmem.c	17 Oct 2001 21:19:20 -0000	1.1.1.16
+++ mm/shmem.c	27 Oct 2001 23:34:51 -0000
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@
 		
 	inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	info = SHMEM_I(inode);
-	inode->i_size = len;
+	inode->i_size = len - 1;
 	if (len <= sizeof(struct shmem_inode_info)) {
 		/* do it inline */
 		memcpy(info, symname, len);

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