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proc: return on proc_readdir error

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Commit f0c3b5093a ("[readdir] convert procfs") introduced a bug on the
listing of the proc file-system.  The return value of proc_readdir()
isn't tested anymore in the proc_root_readdir function.

This lead to an "interesting" behaviour when we are using the getdents()
system call with a buffer too small: instead of failing, it returns the
first entries of /proc (enough to fill the given buffer), plus the PID
directories.

This is not triggered on glibc (as getdents is called with a 32KB
buffer), but on uclibc, the buffer size is only 1KB, thus some proc
entries are missing.

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/12/288 for more background.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Richard Genoud 2013-08-19 18:30:31 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d6a5e06cd1
commit 94fc5d9de5
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@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ static struct dentry *proc_root_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry * dentr
static int proc_root_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
{
if (ctx->pos < FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY) {
proc_readdir(file, ctx);
int error = proc_readdir(file, ctx);
if (unlikely(error <= 0))
return error;
ctx->pos = FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY;
}