[PATCH 4.20 40/65] nfsd4: zero-length WRITE should succeed

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.20-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit fdec6114ee1f0f43b1ad081ad8d46b23ba126d70 upstream.

Zero-length writes are legal; from 5661 section 18.32.3: "If the count
is zero, the WRITE will succeed and return a count of zero subject to
permissions checking".

This check is unnecessary and is causing zero-length reads to return
EINVAL.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 3fd9557aec91 "NFSD: Refactor the generic write vector fill helper"
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -1016,8 +1016,6 @@ nfsd4_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, stru
 
 	nvecs = svc_fill_write_vector(rqstp, write->wr_pagelist,
 				      &write->wr_head, write->wr_buflen);
-	if (!nvecs)
-		return nfserr_io;
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(nvecs > ARRAY_SIZE(rqstp->rq_vec));
 
 	status = nfsd_vfs_write(rqstp, &cstate->current_fh, filp,