From 94fc5d9de5bd757ad46f0d94bc4ebf617c4487f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Genoud Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:30:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] proc: return on proc_readdir error Commit f0c3b5093add ("[readdir] convert procfs") introduced a bug on the listing of the proc file-system. The return value of proc_readdir() isn't tested anymore in the proc_root_readdir function. This lead to an "interesting" behaviour when we are using the getdents() system call with a buffer too small: instead of failing, it returns the first entries of /proc (enough to fill the given buffer), plus the PID directories. This is not triggered on glibc (as getdents is called with a 32KB buffer), but on uclibc, the buffer size is only 1KB, thus some proc entries are missing. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/12/288 for more background. Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/root.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c index 229e366598da..e0a790da726d 100644 --- a/fs/proc/root.c +++ b/fs/proc/root.c @@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ static struct dentry *proc_root_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry * dentr static int proc_root_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) { if (ctx->pos < FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY) { - proc_readdir(file, ctx); + int error = proc_readdir(file, ctx); + if (unlikely(error <= 0)) + return error; ctx->pos = FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY; } -- 2.30.2