Revert "[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec segments"
This reverts commit 81b0c8713385ce1b1b9058e916edcf9561ad76d6, which was
a bugfix against 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 ("[PATCH]
generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write"), which we
also revert.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/filemap.h b/mm/filemap.h
index c2bff04..a1e10a2 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.h
+++ b/mm/filemap.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
const struct iovec *iov = *iovp;
size_t base = *basep;
- do {
+ while (bytes) {
int copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - base);
bytes -= copy;
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
iov++;
base = 0;
}
- } while (bytes);
+ }
*iovp = iov;
*basep = base;
}