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fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions
Patch series "seq_file .next functions should increase position index". In Aug 2018 NeilBrown noticed commit 1f4aace ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") "Some ->next functions do not increment *pos when they return NULL... Note that such ->next functions are buggy and should be fixed. A simple demonstration is dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1000 skip=1 Choose any block size larger than the size of /proc/swaps. This will always show the whole last line of /proc/swaps" Described problem is still actual. If you make lseek into middle of last output line following read will output end of last line and whole last line once again. $ dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1 # usual output Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dm-0 partition 4194812 97536 -2 104+0 records in 104+0 records out 104 bytes copied $ dd if=/proc/swaps bs=40 skip=1 # last line was generated twice dd: /proc/swaps: cannot skip to specified offset v/dm-0 partition 4194812 97536 -2 /dev/dm-0 partition 4194812 97536 -2 3+1 records in 3+1 records out 131 bytes copied There are lot of other affected files, I've found 30+ including /proc/net/ip_tables_matches and /proc/sysvipc/* I've sent patches into maillists of affected subsystems already, this patch-set fixes the problem in files related to pstore, tracing, gcov, sysvipc and other subsystems processed via linux-kernel@ mailing list directly https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206283 This patch (of 4): Add debug code to seq_read() to detect missed or out-of-tree incorrect .next seq_file functions. [[email protected]: s/pr_info/pr_info_ratelimited/, per Qian Cai] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206283 Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]> Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -232,9 +232,12 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
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loff_t pos = m->index;
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p = m->op->next(m, p, &m->index);
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if (pos == m->index)
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/* Buggy ->next function */
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if (pos == m->index) {
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pr_info_ratelimited("buggy seq_file .next function %ps "
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"did not updated position index\n",
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m->op->next);
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m->index++;
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}
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if (!p || IS_ERR(p)) {
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err = PTR_ERR(p);
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break;

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