From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:29:42 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: fs: simplify handling of zero sized reads in __blockdev_direct_IO
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9b5570d7fdedff32a2e78102bfb54cd1b12b289;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

fs: simplify handling of zero sized reads in __blockdev_direct_IO

Reject zero sized reads as soon as we know our I/O length, and don't
borther with locks or allocations that might have to be cleaned up
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index ac5f164170e3..98ce3ac0d94b 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1200,6 +1200,10 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* watch out for a 0 len io from a tricksy fs */
+	if (rw == READ && end == offset)
+		return 0;
+
 	dio = kmalloc(sizeof(*dio), GFP_KERNEL);
 	retval = -ENOMEM;
 	if (!dio)
@@ -1213,8 +1217,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
 
 	dio->flags = flags;
 	if (dio->flags & DIO_LOCKING) {
-		/* watch out for a 0 len io from a tricksy fs */
-		if (rw == READ && end > offset) {
+		if (rw == READ) {
 			struct address_space *mapping =
 					iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;