linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in procfs by kernel/sysctl.c

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:50:37 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Earl Chew <echew@...acom.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support single byte reads from integers published in
 procfs by kernel/sysctl.c

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:47:51 -0800
Earl Chew <echew@...acom.com> wrote:

> > Rereading different bytes of the integer multiple times when the integer
> > may be changing does not seem like a reasonable implementation.
> 
> Yes. I agree with you. I shall re-work the patch as per your suggestion.

Yes, this is a bug and procfs should support byte-at-a-time reading of these
strings.  And yes, they are strings!  Of digits.

We fixed an instance of this in procfs a while ago (maybe a year ago?).
But I forget where it was.  It is surprising that a bug of this nature
survived so long.

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