9p: treat read return values of 0 as EOF

From: Barret Rhoden

Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 12:53:57 EST


If your 9p server shares a synthetic file system such as sysfs, the file
size from stat often disagrees with the actual file size.

Treat non-error reads of 0 as EOF, except in the case where the request
was for 0 bytes.

Tested:
git@xxxxxxxxxx:hugelgupf/p9.git, served "/" on 10.0.2.2

bash-5.3# mount -t 9p -o trans=tcp,port=12345,cache=none 10.0.2.2 /tmp/foo
bash-5.3# cat /tmp/foo/sys/devices/system/cpu/online
0-47

Fixes: eb497943fa21 ("9p: Convert to using the netfs helper lib to do reads and caching")
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/9p/vfs_addr.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c b/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
index 1ac0b3dcc077..df420b061664 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void v9fs_issue_read(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq)
char *target;
unsigned long long pos = subreq->start + subreq->transferred;
int total = 0, err, len, n;
+ size_t to_read = iov_iter_count(&subreq->io_iter);

if (S_ISLNK(rreq->inode->i_mode)) {
/* p9_client_readlink() must not be called for legacy protocols
@@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ static void v9fs_issue_read(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq)
__set_bit(NETFS_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL, &subreq->flags);
if (pos + total >= i_size_read(rreq->inode))
__set_bit(NETFS_SREQ_HIT_EOF, &subreq->flags);
+ if (!err && !total && to_read)
+ __set_bit(NETFS_SREQ_HIT_EOF, &subreq->flags);
if (!err && total) {
subreq->transferred += total;
__set_bit(NETFS_SREQ_MADE_PROGRESS, &subreq->flags);
--
2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog