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Message-ID: <47391EFA.4000004@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:50:18 +0800
From: Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>
To: Tejun Heo <teheo@...e.de>
CC: gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix off-by-one error in fill_read_buffer
on 2007-11-12 22:08 Tejun Heo wrote:
> It isn't strictly a bug. If the ->show() op fills full PAGE_SIZE and
> returns PAGE_SIZE, the user will get full PAGE_SIZE bytes correctly, so
> it will work. However, considering normal use cases, return value of
> PAGE_SIZE very likely indicates an error condition, so considering it a
> BUG condition is a good idea.
>
> Miao, can you please note that the code works fine with PAGE_SIZE return
> but it's likely to indicate truncated result or overflow in normal use
> cases as a comment on top of the BUG_ON()?
>
> Thanks.
OK, I did it.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>
---
fs/sysfs/file.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 27d1785..7f6a8d2 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ static int fill_read_buffer(struct dentry * dentry, struct sysfs_buffer * buffer
sysfs_put_active_two(attr_sd);
- BUG_ON(count > (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* the code works fine with PAGE_SIZE return but it's likely to
+ indicate truncated result or overflow in normal use cases. */
+ BUG_ON(count >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
if (count >= 0) {
buffer->needs_read_fill = 0;
buffer->count = count;
--
1.5.3
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