linux/fs/nfsd
David Shaw 31dec2538e Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client
If a filesystem being written to via NFS returns a short write count
(as opposed to an error) to nfsd, nfsd treats that as a success for
the entire write, rather than the short count that actually succeeded.

For example, given a 8192 byte write, if the underlying filesystem
only writes 4096 bytes, nfsd will ack back to the nfs client that all
8192 bytes were written.  The nfs client does have retry logic for
short writes, but this is never called as the client is told the
complete write succeeded.

There are probably other ways it could happen, but in my case it
happened with a fuse (filesystem in userspace) filesystem which can
rather easily have a partial write.

Here is a patch to properly return the short write count to the
client.

Signed-off-by: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
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auth.c nfsd: fix cred leak on every rpc 2009-01-27 17:26:59 -05:00
auth.h nfsd: minor fs/nfsd/auth.h cleanup 2008-02-01 16:42:05 -05:00
export.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
Kconfig nfsd : Define NFSD only when FILE_LOCKING is enabled 2009-03-18 17:30:48 -04:00
lockd.c nfsd: common grace period control 2008-10-03 16:19:02 -04:00
Makefile knfsd: trivial makefile cleanup 2007-05-09 12:30:54 -07:00
nfs2acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3proc.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
nfs4acl.c nfsd: fix buffer overrun decoding NFSv4 acl 2008-09-01 14:24:24 -04:00
nfs4callback.c nfsd4: move rpc_client setup to a separate function 2009-03-18 17:38:39 -04:00
nfs4idmap.c nfsd: fix sparse warnings 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
nfs4proc.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
nfs4recover.c nfsd: Fix leaked memory in nfs4_make_rec_clidname 2009-01-06 11:53:47 -05:00
nfs4state.c nfsd4: remove use of mutex for file_hashtable 2009-03-18 17:38:38 -04:00
nfs4xdr.c NFSD: return nfsv4 error code nfserr_notsupp rather than nfsv[23]'s nfserr_opnotsupp 2009-03-18 17:38:39 -04:00
nfscache.c nfsd: fail module init on reply cache init failure 2008-02-01 16:42:04 -05:00
nfsctl.c NFSD: Add documenting comments for nfsctl interface 2009-01-06 11:53:57 -05:00
nfsfh.c NFSD: FIDs need to take precedence over UUIDs 2009-01-07 17:23:07 -05:00
nfsproc.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
nfssvc.c NFSD: Fix BUG during NFSD shutdown processing 2008-10-22 13:36:05 -04:00
nfsxdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
stats.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: add per-operation server stats 2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
vfs.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00