Do not report failure on zero sized writes, and handle them as no-op.
There's issues for example in case of writev() when there's iovec
containing zero buffer as a first one. It's expected writev() on below
example to successfully perform the write to specified writable cgroup
file expecting integer value, and to return 2. For now it's returning
value -1, and skipping the write:
int writetest(int fd) {
const char *buf1 = "";
const char *buf2 = "1\n";
struct iovec iov[2] = {
{ .iov_base = (void*)buf1, .iov_len = 0 },
{ .iov_base = (void*)buf2, .iov_len = 2 }
};
return writev(fd, iov, 2);
}
This patch fixes the issue by checking if there's nothing to write,
and handling the write as no-op by just returning 0.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Roivas <jouni.roivas@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>