msync() on NFS still broken in 2.3.40, patch still fixes

[Jim Studt]

I just checked msync() on NFS on a 2.3.40 i386 machine, it is still broken.
nfs_writepage is returning PAGE_SIZE on success instead of 0.

This patch to fs/nfs/write.c fixes it...

--- write.c~	Wed Dec 15 17:24:12 1999
+++ write.c	Sat Jan 22 16:28:07 2000
@@ -416,7 +416,9 @@
 int
 nfs_writepage(struct dentry * dentry, struct page *page)
 {
-	return nfs_writepage_sync(dentry, dentry->d_inode, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+	int result = nfs_writepage_sync(dentry, dentry->d_inode, page, 0, PAGE_SIZE); 
+	if ( result == PAGE_SIZE) return 0; 
+	return result; 
 }
 
 /*

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                                     Jim Studt, President
                                     The Federated Software Group, Inc.

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