Re: [RFC] readdir mess

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Al Viro wrote:
>
> The fact that coda_readdir() will _not_ be returning 0 with your change
> when called with the arguments old_readdir() gives it?  You'll get ret
> from filldir, i.e. what you'll normally see will be -EINVAL in case of
> fillonedir as callback.

Ahh. A light finally goes on. No on the first filldir() callback, but on 
the second.

Yeah, so this should fix it.

		Linus
---
 fs/readdir.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index 4e026e5..4899ba4 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ asmlinkage long old_readdir(unsigned int fd, struct old_linux_dirent __user * di
 	buf.dirent = dirent;
 
 	error = vfs_readdir(file, fillonedir, &buf);
-	if (error >= 0)
+	if (buf.result || error >= 0)
 		error = buf.result;
 
 	fput(file);