linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.

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Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:57:59 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:27:55AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> 
> attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read()
> which ignores the 'count' arg.
> So a 1-byte read request can return more bytes than that.
> 
> This is seen with the 'dash' shell when 'read' is used on
> some 'md' sysfs attributes.
> 
> So only return the 'min' of count and the attribute length.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun
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