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 8a48ab0c278d9ef739ec4e53439e945f575115ca..26c1930889fafb0b191c202d2c5b7df4d8032ba8 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;
 }