linux-kernel - [PATCH -tip 2/4] Tracing/ftrace: Fix pipe breaking

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Message-ID: <48E11D34.4000702@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:23:48 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pq@....fi, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: [PATCH -tip 2/4] Tracing/ftrace: Fix pipe breaking

From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>

This patch fixes a bug which break the pipe when the seq is empty.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 61f33da..ed10a68 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2610,7 +2610,6 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 	sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
 	if (sret != -EBUSY)
 		return sret;
-	sret = 0;
 
 	trace_seq_reset(&iter->seq);
 
@@ -2621,6 +2620,8 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 			goto out;
 	}
 
+waitagain:
+	sret = 0;
 	while (trace_empty(iter)) {
 
 		if ((filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) {
@@ -2754,8 +2755,13 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 	sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt);
 	if (iter->seq.readpos >= iter->seq.len)
 		trace_seq_reset(&iter->seq);
+
+	/*
+	 * If there was nothing to send to user, inspite of consuming trace
+	 * entries, go back to wait for more entries.
+	 */
 	if (sret == -EBUSY)
-		sret = 0;
+		goto waitagain;
 
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
--
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