Reject zero sized reads as soon as we know our I/O length, and don't
borther with locks or allocations that might have to be cleaned up
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/direct-io.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/direct-io.c	2011-06-24 14:30:22.488402525 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/direct-io.c	2011-06-24 15:13:16.711605526 +0200
@@ -1200,6 +1200,10 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kioc
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* watch out for a 0 len io from a tricksy fs */
+	if (rw == READ && end == offset)
+		return 0;
+
 	dio = kmalloc(sizeof(*dio), GFP_KERNEL);
 	retval = -ENOMEM;
 	if (!dio)
@@ -1213,8 +1217,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kioc
 
 	dio->flags = flags;
 	if (dio->flags & DIO_LOCKING) {
-		/* watch out for a 0 len io from a tricksy fs */
-		if (rw == READ && end > offset) {
+		if (rw == READ) {
 			struct address_space *mapping =
 					iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping;
 

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