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Message-ID: <54DD37D9.9050202@interlog.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:31:37 -0500
From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>
To: Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sg: fix read() error reporting
On 15-02-11 01:13 PM, Tony Battersby wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 12:45 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>> On 15-02-11 11:32 AM, Tony Battersby wrote:
>>> Fix SCSI generic read() incorrectly returning success after detecting an
>>> error.
>>>
>>> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> For inclusion in kernel 3.20.
>>>
>>> --- linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c.orig 2015-02-08 21:54:22.000000000 -0500
>>> +++ linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c 2015-02-10 09:26:09.000000000 -0500
>>> @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static ssize_t
>>> sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *buf, size_t count, Sg_request * srp)
>>> {
>>> sg_io_hdr_t *hp = &srp->header;
>>> - int err = 0;
>>> + int err = 0, err2;
>>> int len;
>>>
>>> if (count < SZ_SG_IO_HDR) {
>>> @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *bu
>>> goto err_out;
>>> }
>>> err_out:
>>> - err = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
>>> - return (0 == err) ? count : err;
>>> + err2 = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
>>> + return err ? : err2 ? : count;
>> Tony,
>> Your point is well made.
>>
>> I just don't like that last line, using a gcc extension that
>> hasn't even made it into C11 (or C++11). Wouldn't:
>> return err ? err : (err2 ? err2 : count);
>>
>> be a bit better? I think the following snippet makes the intent
>> clear but would it generate any more code:
>> if (err || err2)
An improvement on the above line would be:
if (unlikely(err || err2))
>> return err ? err : err2;
>> else
>> return count;
>>
Another approach is to return the good path prior to the
err_out label. This would require two calls to
sg_finish_rem_req().
However Tony's clean-up is sufficient.
> I checked before submitting, and the foo ? : bar construct is already
> used at least 455 times in the kernel, so it is nothing new.
>
> find linux-3.19 -type f -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep '\? :' | wc -l
> 455
>
> But you are probably right; I think that with such small variable names
> your version is more readable due to the nesting. Updated patch below.
>
> ---
>
> Fix SCSI generic read() incorrectly returning success after detecting an
> error.
>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>
Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>
> ---
>
> --- linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c.orig 2015-02-08 21:54:22.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c 2015-02-11 13:02:56.000000000 -0500
> @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static ssize_t
> sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *buf, size_t count, Sg_request * srp)
> {
> sg_io_hdr_t *hp = &srp->header;
> - int err = 0;
> + int err = 0, err2;
> int len;
>
> if (count < SZ_SG_IO_HDR) {
> @@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *bu
> goto err_out;
> }
> err_out:
> - err = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
> - return (0 == err) ? count : err;
> + err2 = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
> + return err ? err : (err2 ? err2 : count);
> }
>
> static ssize_t
>
> --
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