4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit fa1195ccc0af2d121abe0fe266a1caee8c265eea ]
We need to increase output offset in each iteration, not decrease it as we currently do.
I guess we were lucky to finish in most cases in first iteration, so the bug never showed. However it shows a lot when working with big (~4GB) size data.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Fixes: 9c9f5a2f1944 ("perf tools: Introduce copyfile_offset() function") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180109133923.25406-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/perf/util/util.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int copyfile_offset(int ifd, loff_t off_
size -= ret; off_in += ret; - off_out -= ret; + off_out += ret; } munmap(ptr, off_in + size);