From 7904ac84244b59f536c2a5d1066a10f46df07b08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Earl Chew Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:33:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] seq_file: fix mishandling of consecutive pread() invocations. The following program illustrates the problem: char buf[8192]; int fd = open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY); n = pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0); printf("%d\n", n); /* lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); */ /* Uncomment to work around */ n = pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0); printf("%d\n", n); The second printf() prints zero, but uncommenting the lseek() corrects its behaviour. To fix, make seq_read() mirror seq_lseek() when processing changes in *ppos. Restore m->version first, then if required traverse and update read_pos on success. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11856 Signed-off-by: Earl Chew Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed