The sense of this test is reversed. There's nothing that prevents userland from requesting a DIO read that is longer than the available data. Conversely, we don't expect a buffered read to be short unless it hits the EOF. Suggested-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/netfs/io.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) David, feel free to fold this into the patch that adds the condition so we can avoid the regression. diff --git a/fs/netfs/io.c b/fs/netfs/io.c index e5a15a924fc7..8188d43e8044 100644 --- a/fs/netfs/io.c +++ b/fs/netfs/io.c @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ssize_t netfs_begin_read(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, bool sync) ret = rreq->error; if (ret == 0 && rreq->submitted < rreq->len && - rreq->origin == NETFS_DIO_READ) { + rreq->origin != NETFS_DIO_READ) { trace_netfs_failure(rreq, NULL, ret, netfs_fail_short_read); ret = -EIO; } -- 2.36.1