[PATCH -mm 3/5] fault-inject: make fail-nth read/write interface symmetric

[Akinobu Mita]

The read interface for fail-nth looks a bit odd.  Read from this file
returns "NYYYY..." or "YYYYY..." (this makes me surprise when cat this
file).  Because there is no EOF condition. The first character indicates
current->fail_nth is zero or not, and then current->fail_nth is reset
to zero.

Just returning task->fail_nth value is more natural to understand.

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 13 +++++++------
 fs/proc/base.c                                    | 14 ++++++--------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
index a321905..370ddcb 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ o proc entries
 - /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth:
 
 	Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the task fail.
-	Read from this file returns a single char 'Y' or 'N'
-	that says if the fault setup with a previous write to this file was
-	injected or not, and disables the fault if it wasn't yet injected.
+	Read from this file returns a integer value. A value of '0' indicates
+	that the fault setup with a previous write to this file was injected.
+	A positive integer N indicates that the fault wasn't yet injected.
 	Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc).
 	This setting takes precedence over all other generic debugfs settings
 	like probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings
@@ -325,13 +325,14 @@ int main()
 		write(fail_nth, buf, strlen(buf));
 		res = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
 		err = errno;
-		read(fail_nth, buf, 1);
+		pread(fail_nth, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
 		if (res == 0) {
 			close(fds[0]);
 			close(fds[1]);
 		}
-		printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, buf[0], res, err);
-		if (buf[0] != 'Y')
+		printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, atoi(buf) ? 'N' : 'Y',
+			res, err);
+		if (atoi(buf))
 			break;
 	}
 	return 0;
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 42c52e2..9d14215 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1383,7 +1383,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 				  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
-	int err;
+	char numbuf[PROC_NUMBUF];
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file));
 	if (!task)
@@ -1391,13 +1392,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	put_task_struct(task);
 	if (task != current)
 		return -EPERM;
-	if (count < 1)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	err = put_user((char)(current->fail_nth ? 'N' : 'Y'), buf);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-	current->fail_nth = 0;
-	return 1;
+	len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n", task->fail_nth);
+	len = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len);
+
+	return len;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations proc_fail_nth_operations = {
-- 
2.7.4