I don't think the current code works with multiple iovecs.
The original would just copy the first part of priv->buf
over and over into multiple iovecs.
Signed-off-by: Sarah Bailey <saharabeara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
{
struct kiocb_priv *priv = iocb->private;
ssize_t len, total;
+ void *to_copy;
int i;
/* we "retry" to get the right mm context for this: */
/* copy stuff into user buffers */
total = priv->actual;
len = 0;
+ to_copy = priv->buf;
for (i=0; i < priv->nr_segs; i++) {
ssize_t this = min((ssize_t)(priv->iv[i].iov_len), total);
- if (copy_to_user(priv->iv[i].iov_base, priv->buf, this)) {
+ if (copy_to_user(priv->iv[i].iov_base, to_copy, this)) {
if (len == 0)
len = -EFAULT;
break;
total -= this;
len += this;
+ to_copy += this;
if (total == 0)
break;
}