On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:41:13 +0300
Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2010/11/29 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Your patch arbitrarily shortens the read to the first vector.  While
> > short reads for regular files are fine with Posix, it will break a lot
> > of userspace applications.
> >
> 
> cifs_user_read returns the number of bytes we read from the server and
> it, of course, can be different with requested number. Could you
> explain carefully what do you mean, please? Where is a problem here?
> 
> 

Gah...good catch, Christoph. I'll need to rescind my ack for this patch
too.

Pavel, note that the aio_read prototype has a "nr_segs" argument. Your
patch ignores that argument in the strictcache case. If someone passes
in an array of iovecs, then you're ignoring all but the first.

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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