Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933941AbWK3KPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934264AbWK3KPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:15:42 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:2251 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933941AbWK3KPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:15:41 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks zerolength fix References: <20061130072058.GA18004@wotan.suse.de> X-Yow: I just remembered something about a TOAD! Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:15:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20061130072058.GA18004@wotan.suse.de> (Nick Piggin's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:20:58 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 18 Nick Piggin writes: > writev with a zero-length segment is a noop, and we shouldn't return EFAULT. AFAICS the callers of these functions never pass a zero length. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/