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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-06-29 02:24:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-29 10:26:20 -0700
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[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec segments
The recent generic_file_write() deadlock fix caused generic_file_buffered_write() to loop inifinitely when presented with a zero-length iovec segment. Fix. Note that this fix deliberately avoids calling ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write() etc with a zero-length write. This is because I don't trust all filesystems to get that right. This is a cautious approach, for 2.6.17.x. For 2.6.18 we should just go ahead and call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with the zero length and fix any broken filesystems. So I'll make that change once this code is stabilised and backported into 2.6.17.x. The reason for preferring to call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with the zero-length segment: a zero-length segment _should_ be sufficiently uncommon that this is the correct way of handling it. We don't want to optimise for poorly-written userspace at the expense of well-written userspace. Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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