On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:40:34PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:19:57PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
>
> > I.e. if you read the /proc/partitions in single read() call,
> > it gets read OK. However, if you read() with smaller-sized blocks,
> > you get the truncated contents.
>
> Having statistics in /proc/partitions leads to such problems.
> Make sure you do not ask for them.
Andries,
have you actually CHECKED whether he has it enabled?
I rather suspect it's the following bug (introduce by me, but not
depend on CONFIG_BLK_STATS):
--- 1.23/drivers/block/genhd.c Wed Aug 21 10:03:48 2002
+++ edited/drivers/block/genhd.c Tue Oct 22 20:43:16 2002
@@ -155,13 +155,14 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
/* iterator */
-static void *part_start(struct seq_file *s, loff_t *pos)
+static void *part_start(struct seq_file *s, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct gendisk *gp;
+ loff_t pos = *ppos;
read_lock(&gendisk_lock);
for (gp = gendisk_head; gp; gp = gp->next)
- if (!*pos--)
+ if (!pos--)
return gp;
return NULL;
}
-
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