--- Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:58:58PM -0800, Asang K Dani wrote:
> > --- Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:42:34PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie
> wrote:
> > > > No, because then you'd be skipping the updatepage() call if
> we
> > > took a
> > > > fault mid-copy after copying some data. That would imply you
> had
> > > > dirtied the page cache without an updatepage().
> > > >
> > > > The current behaviour should just result in a short IO, which
> > > should
> > > > be fine.
> > >
> > > The problem is that the short write is not reported to the
> caller,
> > > even when only zero bytes are copied (the page is corrupted
> anyways
> > > though because cfu zeros the uncopied rest).
> >
> > I think it will be reported to caller, because when cfu copies 0
> > bytes,
> >
> > bytes -= copy_from_user(dest, buf, bytes);
> >
> > will make 'bytes' zero. Since 'bytes' is 'zero' updatepage will
> not
> > be called and status retains value '-EFAULT' and it breaks out of
> > the while loop immediately.
>
> Right for zero it is handled, but not for 1 byte copied but the
> rest zeroed
> (which is a severe IO error)
>
For all those cases (when bytes != 0 after cfu), 'status' will be
overwritten by the return value of 'updatepage'.
> -Andi
asang..
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