From: Miklos Szeredi If a page was invalidated during splicing from file to a pipe, then generic_file_splice_read() could return a short or zero count. This manifested itself in rare I/O errors seen on nfs exported fuse filesystems. This is because nfsd uses splice_direct_to_actor() to read files, and fuse uses invalidate_inode_pages2() to invalidate stale data on open. Fix by redoing the page find/create if it was found to be truncated (invalidated). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- fs/splice.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/splice.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/splice.c 2008-06-25 08:18:51.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/splice.c 2008-06-25 11:57:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -379,13 +379,22 @@ __generic_file_splice_read(struct file * lock_page(page); /* - * page was truncated, stop here. if this isn't the - * first page, we'll just complete what we already - * added + * Page was truncated, or invalidated by the + * filesystem. Redo the find/create, but this time the + * page is kept locked, so there's no chance of another + * race with truncate/invalidate. */ if (!page->mapping) { unlock_page(page); - break; + page = find_or_create_page(mapping, index, + mapping_gfp_mask(mapping)); + + if (!page) { + error = -ENOMEM; + break; + } + page_cache_release(pages[page_nr]); + pages[page_nr] = page; } /* * page was already under io and is now done, great -- -- 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/