Re: [PATCH] fs: configfs: don't set buffer_needs_fill to zero if show() returns error

[Tal Shorer]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A confgifs attribute's show() callback is called once the first time
> the user attempts to read from it. If it returns an error, that
> error is returned to the user. However, the open file's
> buffer_needs_fill is still set to zero and consecutive read() calls
> will find an empty buffer that doesn't need filling and return 0 to
> the user. This could give the user the wrong impression that the
> attribute was read successfully.
>
> Fix this by not setting buffer_needs_fill if show() returns an error,
> making consecutive read() calls call show() again and either get an
> error again or get data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/configfs/file.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c
> index 33b7ee3..68645c9 100644
> --- a/fs/configfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/configfs/file.c
> @@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ static int fill_read_buffer(struct dentry * dentry, struct configfs_buffer * buf
>
>         count = attr->show(item, buffer->page);
>
> -       buffer->needs_read_fill = 0;
>         BUG_ON(count > (ssize_t)SIMPLE_ATTR_SIZE);
> -       if (count >= 0)
> +       if (count >= 0) {
> +               buffer->needs_read_fill = 0;
>                 buffer->count = count;
> -       else
> +       } else
>                 ret = count;
>         return ret;
>  }
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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