Re: [PATCH 2/3] afs: Fix afs_write_end() to handle short writes

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> >  (1) If the page is not up to date, then we should just return 0
> >      (ie. indicating a zero-length copy).  The loop in
> >      generic_perform_write() will go around again, possibly breaking up the
> >      iterator into discrete chunks.
> 
> Does this actually work?  What about the situation where you're reading
> the last page of a file and thus (almost) always reading fewer bytes
> than a PAGE_SIZE?

Al Viro made such a change for Ceph - and we're writing, not reading.

I was thinking that it would break if reading from a pipe, but Jeff pointed
out that the iov_iter_advance() in generic_perform_write() uses the return
value of ->write_end() to advance the iterator.  So it might loop endlessly,
but it doesn't appear it will corrupt your data.

David