configfs: restore the kernel v5.13 text attribute write behavior

Instead of appending new text attribute data at the offset specified by the
write() system call, only pass the newly written data to the .store()
callback.

Reported-by: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c
index 5a0be9985bae..0ad32150611e 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/file.c
@@ -177,28 +177,22 @@ out:
 	return retval;
 }
 
-/* Fill [buffer, buffer + pos) with data coming from @from. */
-static int fill_write_buffer(struct configfs_buffer *buffer, loff_t pos,
+/* Fill @buffer with data coming from @from. */
+static int fill_write_buffer(struct configfs_buffer *buffer,
 			     struct iov_iter *from)
 {
-	loff_t to_copy;
 	int copied;
-	u8 *to;
 
 	if (!buffer->page)
 		buffer->page = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
 	if (!buffer->page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	to_copy = SIMPLE_ATTR_SIZE - 1 - pos;
-	if (to_copy <= 0)
-		return 0;
-	to = buffer->page + pos;
-	copied = copy_from_iter(to, to_copy, from);
+	copied = copy_from_iter(buffer->page, SIMPLE_ATTR_SIZE - 1, from);
 	buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
 	/* if buf is assumed to contain a string, terminate it by \0,
 	 * so e.g. sscanf() can scan the string easily */
-	to[copied] = 0;
+	buffer->page[copied] = 0;
 	return copied ? : -EFAULT;
 }
 
@@ -227,10 +221,10 @@ static ssize_t configfs_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct configfs_buffer *buffer = file->private_data;
-	ssize_t len;
+	int len;
 
 	mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
-	len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, iocb->ki_pos, from);
+	len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, from);
 	if (len > 0)
 		len = flush_write_buffer(file, buffer, len);
 	if (len > 0)