fix asynchronous ioctls
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:57:02 +0000 (11:57 +0200)
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 8 May 2009 20:51:19 +0000 (15:51 -0500)
posix_aio_read expect aio requests to return the number of bytes
requests to be successfull, so we need to fake this up for ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

posix-aio-compat.c

index c7fdac7..e9fc9fa 100644 (file)
@@ -90,7 +90,16 @@ static size_t handle_aiocb_ioctl(struct qemu_paiocb *aiocb)
        ret = ioctl(aiocb->aio_fildes, aiocb->aio_ioctl_cmd, aiocb->aio_ioctl_buf);
        if (ret == -1)
                return -errno;
-       return ret;
+
+       /*
+        * This looks weird, but the aio code only consideres a request
+        * successfull if it has written the number full number of bytes.
+        *
+        * Now we overload aio_nbytes as aio_ioctl_cmd for the ioctl command,
+        * so in fact we return the ioctl command here to make posix_aio_read()
+        * happy..
+        */
+       return aiocb->aio_nbytes;
 }
 
 #ifdef HAVE_PREADV