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    fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE · 90330e68
    Abhi Das authored
    
    
    During testing, I discovered that __generic_file_splice_read() returns
    0 (EOF) when aops->readpage fails with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE on the first
    page of a single/multi-page splice read operation. This EOF return code
    causes the userspace test to (correctly) report a zero-length read error
    when it was expecting otherwise.
    
    The current strategy of returning a partial non-zero read when ->readpage
    returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE works only when the failed page is not the
    first of the lot being processed.
    
    This patch attempts to retry lookup and call ->readpage again on pages
    that had previously failed with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. With this patch, my
    tests pass and I haven't noticed any unwanted side effects.
    
    This version removes the thrice-retry loop and instead indefinitely
    retries lookups on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE errors from ->readpage. This
    behavior is now similar to do_generic_file_read().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAbhi Das <adas@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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