Re: [PATCH] autofs: don't stuck in a loop if vfs_write returns an error

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 22:12 -0700, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> __vfs_write() returns a negative value in a error case.

Ha, right, I'll send this along to Andrew with my next series which
should be soon.

> 
> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> index 0146d91..631f155 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> @@ -66,11 +66,12 @@ static int autofs4_write(struct autofs_sb_info
> *sbi,
>  	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&sbi->pipe_mutex);
> -	wr = __vfs_write(file, data, bytes, &file->f_pos);
> -	while (bytes && wr) {
> +	while (bytes) {
> +		wr = __vfs_write(file, data, bytes, &file->f_pos);
> +		if (wr <= 0)
> +			break;
>  		data += wr;
>  		bytes -= wr;
> -		wr = __vfs_write(file, data, bytes, &file->f_pos);
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&sbi->pipe_mutex);
>