From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:16:58 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: NFS: Ensure we return zero if applications attempt to write zero bytes
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9148c6b;p=mv-sheeva.git

NFS: Ensure we return zero if applications attempt to write zero bytes

A zero byte count direct write request should be a successful no-op, not an
error.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index 88d5d1c7f98..4d726e9db29 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -890,6 +890,8 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 	retval = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, 0);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
+	if (!count)
+		goto out;	/* return 0 */
 
 	retval = -EINVAL;
 	if ((ssize_t) count < 0)