[patch] new aop loop fix

From: Dmitriy Monakhov
Date: Wed Jun 13 2007 - 06:46:16 EST


loop.c code itself is not perfect. In fact before Nick's patch
partial write was't possible. Assumption what write chunks are
always page aligned is realy weird ( see "index++" line).

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 4bab9b1..8726da5 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio_vec *bvec,
int len, ret;

mutex_lock(&mapping->host->i_mutex);
- index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
offset = pos & ((pgoff_t)PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
bv_offs = bvec->bv_offset;
len = bvec->bv_len;
@@ -226,6 +225,7 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio_vec *bvec,
struct page *page;
void *fsdata;

+ index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
IV = ((sector_t)index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - 9))+(offset >> 9);
size = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
if (size > len)
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio_vec *bvec,
bv_offs += copied;
len -= copied;
offset = 0;
- index++;
pos += copied;
}
ret = 0;

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