> I don't have a device large enough to test for signedness errors, since 
> passing 
> huge values for start and len never make it past the i_size_read check.

If you have someone trying to bypass your sanity checks then if 
start=18446744073709551104 and len=1024 the result of adding them together will 
be 512 (subtracting an extra 1 in the patched code to get 511 for end). That 
will pass the i_size_read check won't it? If so that would cause lstart in 
truncate_inode_pages_range() to be -512. I don't know what 
truncate_inode_pages_range() will do with a negative lstart value like that but 
it seems like an unusual value for your code to be willing to pass into 
truncate_inode_pages_range().

Shane
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