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Subject[PATCH 1/4] devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes
write_kmem() used to assume vwrite() always return the full buffer length.
However now vwrite() could return 0 to indicate memory hole. This creates
a bug that "buf" is not advanced accordingly.

Fix it to simply ignore the return value, hence the memory hole.

CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
drivers/char/mem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-mm.orig/drivers/char/mem.c 2009-09-16 10:41:10.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-mm/drivers/char/mem.c 2009-09-16 10:48:16.000000000 +0800
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file *
free_page((unsigned long)kbuf);
return -EFAULT;
}
- sz = vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
+ vwrite(kbuf, (char *)p, sz);
count -= sz;
buf += sz;
virtr += sz;
--



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