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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
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