From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return short read or 0 at end of a raw device, not EIO
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:05:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140929190509.GA2767@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140929142110.GA12562@fury.redhat.com>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:21:10AM -0400, David Jeffery wrote:
> Changes to the basic direct I/O code have broken the raw driver when reading
> to the end of a raw device. Instead of returning a short read for a read that
> extends partially beyond the device's end or 0 when at the end of the device,
> these reads now return EIO.
Seems like this should be changed in the generic code, or is there some
reason why it would return EIO only for devices, but not for regular
files in this case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 14:21 [PATCH] Return short read or 0 at end of a raw device, not EIO David Jeffery
2014-09-29 16:46 ` Jeff Moyer
2014-09-29 19:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-29 22:08 ` David Jeffery
2014-09-30 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-30 16:37 ` David Jeffery
2014-10-10 17:17 ` Jeff Moyer
2014-10-11 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-31 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-31 10:35 ` Al Viro
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