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

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Message-ID: <4F201F6E.9020201@ixiacom.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:27:42 -0800
From:	Earl Chew <echew@...acom.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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 24/01/2012 2:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Also related to procfs, I posted the following fix for pread() and seq_file but
haven't received any feedback.

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/22/61

Would you take a look ?

Earl

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