splice: fix direct splice error handling
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 51a92c0f Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> noticed this bug in 2.6.22, and has verified that this minimal fix works. Signed-off-by:Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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