From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> This was a bugfix against 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83, which we also revert. Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> mm/filemap.c | 9 +-------- mm/filemap.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c @@ -1969,12 +1969,6 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb break; } - if (unlikely(bytes == 0)) { - status = 0; - copied = 0; - goto zero_length_segment; - } - status = a_ops->prepare_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes); if (unlikely(status)) { loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode); @@ -2004,8 +1998,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb page_cache_release(page); continue; } -zero_length_segment: - if (likely(copied >= 0)) { + if (likely(copied > 0)) { if (!status) status = copied; Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.h +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.h @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ filemap_set_next_iovec(const struct iove const struct iovec *iov = *iovp; size_t base = *basep; - do { + while (bytes) { int copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - base); bytes -= copy; @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ filemap_set_next_iovec(const struct iove iov++; base = 0; } - } while (bytes); + } *iovp = iov; *basep = base; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html