[PATCH] xfs: don't return 0 if generic_segment_checks() find nothing to write

[Jeff Liu]

From: Jie Liu <jeff.liu at oracle.com>

At xfs_file_aio_write(), we just return 0 which means a successfully operation if the ocount
is evaluated to 0 at generic_segment_checks().  Generally, it'll occurred if the specified
write count is 0 from the user space.  However, for example, if the given offset is over the
maximum file size limitation although nothing would be written into the file, in this case,
the underlying file system should detect this issue and return a proper errno instead.
Hence, the beginning pre-checking up against ocount would conceal some real cause and confuse
the user space program maybe.

To fix it, we can delay the write count verification until xfs_file_aio_write_checks() is done.

This test is performed on 32-bit system without CONFIG_LBADF is enabled.
Before patching:
xfs_io -f -c "pwrite 17592186040320 0" /storage/test_file
wrote 0/0 bytes at offset 17592186040320
0.000000 bytes, 0 ops; 0.0000 sec (0.000000 bytes/sec and 0.0000 ops/sec)

After patching:
xfs_io -f -c "pwrite 17592186040320 0" /storage/test_file
pwrite64: File too large

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu at oracle.com>

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index f03bf1a..f8a933e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -671,6 +671,9 @@ xfs_file_dio_aio_write(
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+	if (ocount == 0)
+		goto out;
+
 	if (mapping->nrpages) {
 		ret = -filemap_write_and_wait_range(VFS_I(ip)->i_mapping,
 						    pos, -1);
@@ -725,6 +728,9 @@ xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+	if (ocount == 0)
+		goto out;
+
 	/* We can write back this queue in page reclaim */
 	current->backing_dev_info = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 
@@ -772,9 +778,6 @@ xfs_file_aio_write(
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (ocount == 0)
-		return 0;
-
 	sb_start_write(inode->i_sb);
 
 	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) {
-- 
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