[PATCH 002 of 2] Make sure readv stops reading when it hits end-of-file.

From: NeilBrown
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 21:47:42 EST



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@xxxxxxx>

### Diffstat output
./mm/filemap.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff .prev/mm/filemap.c ./mm/filemap.c
--- .prev/mm/filemap.c 2007-06-07 11:34:24.000000000 +1000
+++ ./mm/filemap.c 2007-06-07 11:39:35.000000000 +1000
@@ -1206,6 +1206,8 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
retval = retval ?: desc.error;
break;
}
+ if (desc.count > 0)
+ break;
}
}
out:
-
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