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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2011-03-07 11:10:24 -0500
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2011-03-07 11:10:24 -0500
commit31339acd07b4ba687906702085127895a56eb920 (patch)
treec1f2d464acfc97e8c5faecf57e644578cccce94d /scripts/patch-kernel
parentb1bf862e9dad431175a1174379476299dbfdc017 (diff)
downloadlinux-31339acd07b4ba687906702085127895a56eb920.tar.gz
Btrfs: deal with short returns from copy_from_user
When copy_from_user is only able to copy some of the bytes we requested,
we may end up creating a partially up to date page.  To avoid garbage in
the page, we need to treat a partial copy as a zero length copy.

This makes the rest of the file_write code drop the page and
retry the whole copy instead of marking the partially up to
date page as dirty.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
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