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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-02-20 10:34:51 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>2008-03-04 11:14:39 +0100
commit02cf01aea5af7a4d1a38045712fe11bffcc206b0 (patch)
tree28a5817e0bb4aaf174c9d8a87f34a8aefd754aa6 /fs
parent5d87a052c7e5f245bbb3018721b4b0afe0afc252 (diff)
downloadlinux-02cf01aea5af7a4d1a38045712fe11bffcc206b0.tar.gz
splice: only return -EAGAIN if there's hope of more data
sys_tee() currently is a bit eager in returning -EAGAIN, it may do so
even if we don't have a chance of anymore data becoming available. So
improve the logic and only return -EAGAIN if we have an attached writer
to the input pipe.

Reported by Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> and
Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>.

Tested-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 9b559ee711a8..0670c915cd35 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1669,6 +1669,13 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe,
 		i++;
 	} while (len);
 
+	/*
+	 * return EAGAIN if we have the potential of some data in the
+	 * future, otherwise just return 0
+	 */
+	if (!ret && ipipe->waiting_writers && (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK))
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
+
 	inode_double_unlock(ipipe->inode, opipe->inode);
 
 	/*
@@ -1709,11 +1716,8 @@ static long do_tee(struct file *in, struct file *out, size_t len,
 		ret = link_ipipe_prep(ipipe, flags);
 		if (!ret) {
 			ret = link_opipe_prep(opipe, flags);
-			if (!ret) {
+			if (!ret)
 				ret = link_pipe(ipipe, opipe, len, flags);
-				if (!ret && (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK))
-					ret = -EAGAIN;
-			}
 		}
 	}