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| author | akpm@linux-foundation.org <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-15 23:38:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -0700 |
| commit | c44939ecb6e05aeaaf12d4e1bb046719c97e457e (patch) | |
| tree | 5bf1bc2c4c518fb89271110a0e9fbb43d6f4c413 /mm/filemap.c | |
| parent | 5ed44a401ddfc60e11c3484e86f0c8285051139a (diff) | |
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NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The do_loop_readv_writev implementation of readv breaks out of the loop as
soon as a single read request didn't fill it's buffer:
if (nr != len)
break;
The generic_file_aio_read version doesn't. So if it hits EOF before the end
of the list of buffers, it will try again on the next buffer. If the file was
extended in the mean time, this will produce a bad result.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index e006c57bda5..adbac104f34 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1219,6 +1219,8 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, retval = retval ?: desc.error; break; } + if (desc.count > 0) + break; } } out: |