Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2020-10-31

Re: [PATCH] net: atm: fix update of position index in lec_seq_next

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-10-31 19:32:33
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:49:25 +0000 Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

The position index in leq_seq_next is not updated when the next
entry is fetched an no more entries are available. This causes
seq_file to report the following error:

"seq_file: buggy .next function lec_seq_next [lec] did not update
 position index"

Fix this by always updating the position index.

[ Note: this is an ancient 2002 bug, the sha is from the
  tglx/history repo ]

Fixes 4aea2cbff417 ("[ATM]: Move lan seq_file ops to lec.c [1/3]")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
Applied, very sneaky there with the lack of a colon on the Fixes tag :)


BTW looking at seq_read() it seems to eat the potential error code from
->next, doesn't it?
@@ -254,9 +254,11 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
        }
        m->op->stop(m, p);
        n = min(m->count, size);
-       err = copy_to_user(buf, m->buf, n);
-       if (err)
-               goto Efault;
+       if (n) {
+               err = copy_to_user(buf, m->buf, n);
+               if (err)
+                       goto Efault;
+       }
        copied += n;
        m->count -= n;
        m->from = n;
Maybe? Or at least:
@@ -239,10 +239,8 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
                                            m->op->next);
                        m->index++;
                }
-               if (!p || IS_ERR(p)) {
-                       err = PTR_ERR(p);
+               if (!p || IS_ERR(p))
                        break;
-               }
                if (m->count >= size)
                        break;
                err = m->op->show(m, p);
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