linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernfs: handle poll correctly on 'direct

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:30:14 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>,
	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	linux RAID <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernfs: handle poll correctly on 'direct_read' files.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:44:52AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> 
> Kernfs supports two styles of read: direct_read and seqfile_read.
> 
> The latter supports 'poll' correctly thanks to the update of
> '->event' in kernfs_seq_show.
> The former does not as '->event' is never updated on a read.
> 
> So add an appropriate update in kernfs_file_direct_read().
> 
> This was noticed because some 'md' sysfs attributes were
> recently changed to use direct reads.
> 
> Reported-by: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>
> Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>
> Fixes: 750f199ee8b578062341e6ddfe36c59ac8ff2dcb

This fixes tag is kinda weird without further explanation.

> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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