[PATCH] sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.

[PATCH] sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.

[NeilBrown]

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@suse.com>

---
Possibly kernfs_file_direct_read should be changed instead (or as well)
to use the min of 'count' and the return value from ops->read()

Thanks,
NeilBrown

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 6c95628ea377..f35523d4fa3a 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
 {
 	const struct sysfs_ops *ops = sysfs_file_ops(of->kn);
 	struct kobject *kobj = of->kn->parent->priv;
+	size_t len;
 
 	/*
 	 * If buf != of->prealloc_buf, we don't know how
@@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
 	 */
 	if (pos || WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
 		return 0;
-	return ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
+	len = ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
+	return min(count, len);
 }
 
 /* kernfs write callback for regular sysfs files */

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

[Tejun Heo]

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@suse.com>

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

Thanks.

-- 
tejun