From 875ce094cf2d421ba05bed6cfd6c948084d52abe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 17:46:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dd: fix handling of short result of full_write(), closes
 11711

$ dd bs=1G <sda1 of=/dev/sda1
dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
999292928 bytes (953.0MB) copied, 0.784617 seconds, 1.2GB/s

function                                             old     new   delta
write_and_stats                                       99     102      +3

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
---
 coreutils/dd.c     | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 libbb/full_write.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/dd.c b/coreutils/dd.c
index 2fb9da77c..b5f3cbec5 100644
--- a/coreutils/dd.c
+++ b/coreutils/dd.c
@@ -192,23 +192,15 @@ static void dd_output_status(int UNUSED_PARAM cur_signal)
 #endif
 }
 
-static ssize_t full_write_or_warn(const void *buf, size_t len,
-	const char *const filename)
-{
-	ssize_t n = full_write(ofd, buf, len);
-	if (n < 0)
-		bb_perror_msg("writing '%s'", filename);
-	return n;
-}
-
 static bool write_and_stats(const void *buf, size_t len, size_t obs,
 	const char *filename)
 {
-	ssize_t n = full_write_or_warn(buf, len, filename);
-	if (n < 0)
-		return 1;
+	ssize_t n;
+
+	n = full_write(ofd, buf, len);
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_DD_THIRD_STATUS_LINE
-	G.total_bytes += n;
+	if (n > 0)
+		G.total_bytes += n;
 #endif
 	if ((size_t)n == obs) {
 		G.out_full++;
@@ -218,6 +210,14 @@ static bool write_and_stats(const void *buf, size_t len, size_t obs,
 		G.out_part++;
 		return 0;
 	}
+	/* n is < len (and possibly is -1).
+	 * Even if n >= 0, errno is usually set correctly.
+	 * For example, if writing to block device and getting ENOSPC,
+	 * full_write() first sees a short write, then tries to write
+	 * the remainder and gets errno set to ENOSPC.
+	 * It returns n > 0 (the amount which it did write).
+	 */
+	bb_perror_msg("error writing '%s'", filename);
 	return 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/libbb/full_write.c b/libbb/full_write.c
index 2b7983f4c..15766fc6c 100644
--- a/libbb/full_write.c
+++ b/libbb/full_write.c
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 /*
  * Write all of the supplied buffer out to a file.
  * This does multiple writes as necessary.
- * Returns the amount written, or -1 on an error.
+ * Returns the amount written, or -1 if error was seen
+ * on the very first write.
  */
 ssize_t FAST_FUNC full_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len)
 {