From: Jens Axboe This is a splice patch for 2.6.22 and 2.6.21 (and earlier, I did not check. Let me know if you still maintain older stable trees!). It fixes an infinite loop in do_splice_direct(), when there's either nothing to read or nothing to write and blocking doesn't help. It could be things like running out of disk space. We need to exit both for failure and zero return, or we could be going around forever. This got fixed in 2.6.23-git with commit 51a92c0f6ce8fa85fa0e18ecda1d847e606e8066 Herbert Poetzl noticed this bug in 2.6.22, and has verified that this minimal fix works. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/splice.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, l max_read_len = min(len, (size_t)(PIPE_BUFFERS*PAGE_SIZE)); ret = do_splice_to(in, ppos, pipe, max_read_len, flags); - if (unlikely(ret < 0)) + if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) goto out_release; read_len = ret; @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, l */ ret = do_splice_from(pipe, out, &out_off, read_len, flags & ~SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK); - if (unlikely(ret < 0)) + if (unlikely(ret <= 0)) goto out_release; bytes += ret; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/