netdev - Re: [PATCH] rds: Make rds_message_copy_from

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Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:58:45 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Cc:	chien.yen@...cle.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	rds-devel@....oracle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rds: Make rds_message_copy_from_user() return 0 on
 success.

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:20:50PM -0500, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> 
> Commit c310e72c8992 ("rds: switch ->inc_copy_to_user() to passing iov_iter")
> breaks rds_message_copy_from_user() semantics on success, and causes it
> to return nbytes copied, when it should return 0.  This commit fixes that bug.

*blink*

Commit 083735f4b0 ("rds: switch rds_message_copy_from_user() to iov_iter"),
surely?  That's the one that touches copy-from side of things...

And unlike the previous commit (the one you'd mentioned) here the return value
of copy_page_....() ended up passed to caller of its caller.  Mea culpa.

So, modulo correction of the commit message,

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
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