Re: On current git head webservers stopped working

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

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> Does this work?

Ok, so it apparently works, but:

> diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
> index ed2ce99..92646aa 100644
> --- a/fs/splice.c
> +++ b/fs/splice.c
> @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
>  
>  	ret = 0;
>  	spliced = 0;
> -	while (len) {
> +	while (len && !spliced) {
>  		ret = __generic_file_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);

This hunk basically make sthe whole "while" loop pointless. You'll never 
go through it more than once.

So at that point, maybe the loop should be removed entirely? Or maybe this 
part of the patch is wrong, and the fix was in the _other_ parts?

		Linus
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