From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:22:53 +0000 (-0400) Subject: __generic_file_write_iter: keep ->ki_pos and return value consistent X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.1/fixes-rc1~116^2~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b8def9d6dfa6b2a9a2740cf81d8d2c134688d39;p=pandora-kernel.git __generic_file_write_iter: keep ->ki_pos and return value consistent A side effect worth noting: in O_APPEND case we set ->ki_pos early, so if it turns out to be an error or a zero-length write, we'll end up with ->ki_pos modified. Safe, since all callers never look at the ->ki_pos after the call of __generic_file_write_iter() returning non-positive, all the way to caller of ->write_iter() and those discard ->ki_pos when getting that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-diff-tree failed