Re: [PATCH v7 14/19] iomap: Fix iomap_dio_rw return value for user copies

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 07:20:00 EST


On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:49:21PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> When a user copy fails in one of the helpers of iomap_dio_rw, fail with
> -EFAULT instead of returning 0. This matches what iomap_dio_bio_actor
> returns when it gets an -EFAULT from bio_iov_iter_get_pages. With these
> changes, iomap_dio_actor now consistently fails with -EFAULT when a user
> page cannot be faulted in.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> index 9398b8c31323..8054f5d6c273 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
> @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ iomap_dio_hole_actor(loff_t length, struct iomap_dio *dio)
> {
> length = iov_iter_zero(length, dio->submit.iter);
> dio->size += length;
> - return length;
> + return length ? length : -EFAULT;

What's wrong with a good old:

if (!length)
return -EFAULT;
return length?

Besides this nit and the fact that the patch needs a reabse it looks
good to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>