aio: partial write should not return error code
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:20:14 +0000 (04:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:22:33 +0000 (09:22 -0800)
When an AIO write gets an error after writing some data (eg.  ENOSPC), it
should return the amount written already, not the error.  Just like write()
is supposed to.

This was found by the libaio test suite.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-By: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/aio.c

index 8a48ab0..26c1930 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1347,6 +1347,13 @@ static ssize_t aio_rw_vect_retry(struct kiocb *iocb)
        if ((ret == 0) || (iocb->ki_left == 0))
                ret = iocb->ki_nbytes - iocb->ki_left;
 
+       /* If we managed to write some out we return that, rather than
+        * the eventual error. */
+       if (opcode == IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV
+           && ret < 0 && ret != -EIOCBQUEUED && ret != -EIOCBRETRY
+           && iocb->ki_nbytes - iocb->ki_left)
+               ret = iocb->ki_nbytes - iocb->ki_left;
+
        return ret;
 }