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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-04 02:38:55 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-04 02:38:55 +0200
commit4038acdb187e226e72df393ae3dd150df857e8a3 (patch)
tree8c911f14f9c22808b0f52827e562d2ff3d6dedf9
parentLinux 4.8-rc8 (diff)
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consistent treatment of EFAULT on O_DIRECT read/write
Make local filesystems treat a fault as shortened IO, returning -EFAULT only if nothing had been transferred. That's how everything else (NFS, FUSE, ceph, Lustre) behaves. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/direct-io.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 7c3ce73cb617..fb9aa16a7727 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio *dio, ssize_t ret, bool is_async)
if ((dio->op == REQ_OP_READ) &&
((offset + transferred) > dio->i_size))
transferred = dio->i_size - offset;
+ /* ignore EFAULT if some IO has been done */
+ if (unlikely(ret == -EFAULT) && transferred)
+ ret = 0;
}
if (ret == 0)