[PATCH 01/10] staging: comedi: remain busy until read end-of-file

[Ian Abbott]

If a COMEDI subdevice is busy handling an asynchronous command in the
"read" direction, then after the command has terminated itself, the
"read" file operation handler, `comedi_read()` should keep the subdevice
busy until all available data has been read and it has returned 0 to
indicate an "end-of-file" condition.  Currently, it has a bug where it
can mark the subdevice as non-busy even when returning a non-zero count.
The bug is slightly hidden because the next "read" will return 0 because
the subdevice is no longer busy.  Fix it by checking the return count is
0 before deciding to mark the subdevice as non-busy.

The call to `comedi_is_subdevice_idle()` is superfluous as the
`become_nonbusy` variable will have been set to `true` when considering
becoming non-busy.  Strictly speaking, checking the return count is
superfluous too, as `become_nonbusy` doesn't get set to `true` unless
the count is 0, but check the return count anyway to make the intention
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index ef4b58b..f533113 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2550,7 +2550,7 @@ static ssize_t comedi_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes,
 	}
 	remove_wait_queue(&async->wait_head, &wait);
 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-	if (become_nonbusy || comedi_is_subdevice_idle(s)) {
+	if (become_nonbusy && count == 0) {
 		struct comedi_subdevice *new_s;
 
 		/*
-- 
2.6.1

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