netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: Fix seeking in /proc/net/dev

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Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:41:19 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Mihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@...acom.com>
Cc:	John Keeping <john@...ping.me.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mihai Maruseac <mihai.maruseac@...il.com>,
	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Fix seeking in /proc/net/dev

On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 20:14 +0300, Mihai Maruseac wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:05 PM, John Keeping <john@...ping.me.uk> wrote:
> > Commit f04565ddf52e4 (dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops) introduced
> > code that fails to check the requested position when getting an item for
> > /proc/net/dev.  This means that any code which seeks within this file is
> > likely to receive corrupted data.
> >
> > A test case for this is to use the read builtin in bash:
> >
...
> Looks good to me. However, Eric just submitted a patch here with other
> changes caused by a logic error in the original patch.

Hmm, I think my patch fixed this lseek issue as well.


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