Re: [PATCH] 2.5.27 read_write

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 15:08, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> - It is fixing completely confused wild casting to 32 bits.
> 
> - Actually adding a comment explaining the obscure code, which is
>    relying on integer arithmetics overflow.

Better yet take the code from 2.4.19-rc3. The code you fixed up is still
wrong. Sincie iov_len is not permitted to exceed 2Gb (SuS v3, found by
the LSB test suite) the actual fix turns out to be even simpler and
cleaner than the one you did