Negative offset may cause loop device size larger than backing file
size.
$ fallocate -l 1M a
$ losetup --offset 0xffffffffffff0000 /dev/loop0 a
$ blockdev --getsize64 /dev/loop0
1114112
$ ls -l a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048576 Jan 23 12:46 a
$ cat /dev/loop0
cat: /dev/loop0: Input/output error
It makes no sense to do that. Only apply offset when it's positive.
Fix a typo in the comment by the way.
Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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