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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/uio.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/uio.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h index e2231e47cec1..d54985e0705e 100644 --- a/include/linux/uio.h +++ b/include/linux/uio.h @@ -94,8 +94,20 @@ static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i) return i->count; } -static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, size_t count) +/* + * Cap the iov_iter by given limit; note that the second argument is + * *not* the new size - it's upper limit for such. Passing it a value + * greater than the amount of data in iov_iter is fine - it'll just do + * nothing in that case. + */ +static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, u64 count) { + /* + * count doesn't have to fit in size_t - comparison extends both + * operands to u64 here and any value that would be truncated by + * conversion in assignement is by definition greater than all + * values of size_t, including old i->count. + */ if (i->count > count) i->count = count; } |