2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
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From: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
changeset e79ad711a0108475c1b3a03815527e7237020b08 from mainline.
This fixes kernel bugzilla #5731
It should generate an empty packet for datagram protocols when the
socket is connected, for one.
The check is doubly-wrong because all that a write() can be is a
sendmsg() call with a NULL msg_control and a single entry iovec. No
special semantics should be assigned to it, therefore the zero length
check should be removed entirely.
This matches the behavior of BSD and several other systems.
Alan Cox notes that SuSv3 says the behavior of a zero length write on
non-files is "unspecified", but that's kind of useless since BSD has
defined this behavior for a quarter century and BSD is essentially
what application folks code to.
Based upon a patch from Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/socket.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -778,9 +778,6 @@ static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kio
if (pos != 0)
return -ESPIPE;
- if (iocb->ki_left == 0) /* Match SYS5 behaviour */
- return 0;
-
x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
if (!x)
return -ENOMEM;
--
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