iov_iter_advance() needs to do some non-trivial work when it's given 0 as argument (skip all empty iovecs, mostly). We used to implement it via iterate_and_advance(); we no longer do so and for all other users of iterate_and_advance() zero length is a no-op. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/iov_iter.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c index 906e9d49c487..ebb907c6393c 100644 --- a/lib/iov_iter.c +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ #define iterate_and_advance(i, n, v, I, B, K, X) { \ if (unlikely(i->count < n)) \ n = i->count; \ - if (i->count) { \ + if (likely(n)) { \ size_t skip = i->iov_offset; \ if (likely(iter_is_iovec(i))) { \ const struct iovec *iov; \ -- 2.11.0