devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:02:13 +0000 (15:02 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:37:54 +0000 (07:37 -0800)
commit483d7142396f0d8b8f8748a4069b71c13ca662e5
tree7a28636afd1ccbd59bc762f00b933231303a8754
parent6b344d83ca458327faa0e1f6afd45c39cceab2a6
devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes

commit c85e9a97c4102ce2e83112da850d838cfab5ab13 upstream

devmem: fix kmem write bug on memory holes

[ cebbert@redhat.com : backport to 2.6.32 ]

write_kmem() used to assume vwrite() always return the full buffer length.
However now vwrite() could return 0 to indicate memory hole.  This
creates a bug that "buf" is not advanced accordingly.

Fix it to simply ignore the return value, hence the memory hole.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/mem.c