Re: [patch 1/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks zerolength fix

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 05:16:03 EST


Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes:

> writev with a zero-length segment is a noop, and we shouldn't return EFAULT.

AFAICS the callers of these functions never pass a zero length.

Andreas.

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