Re: [PATCH] md: Fix missing unused status line of /proc/mdstat

From: Song Liu
Date: Mon Mar 22 2021 - 13:40:37 EST


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:05 AM Jan Glauber <jglauber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Reading /proc/mdstat with a read buffer size that would not
> fit the unused status line in the first read will skip this
> line from the output.
>
> So 'dd if=/proc/mdstat bs=64 2>/dev/null' will not print something
> like: unused devices: <none>
>
> Don't return NULL immediately in start() for v=2 but call
> show() once to print the status line also for multiple reads.
>
> Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface")
> Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to md-next. Thanks!
Song