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Commit 10c8d69f authored by Vasily Averin's avatar Vasily Averin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/swapfile.c: swap_next should increase position index

If seq_file .next fuction does not change position index, read after
some lseek can generate unexpected output.

In Aug 2018 NeilBrown noticed commit 1f4aace6 ("fs/seq_file.c:
simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") "Some ->next functions
do not increment *pos when they return NULL...  Note that such ->next
functions are buggy and should be fixed.  A simple demonstration is

  dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1000 skip=1

Choose any block size larger than the size of /proc/swaps.  This will
always show the whole last line of /proc/swaps"

Described problem is still actual.  If you make lseek into middle of
last output line following read will output end of last line and whole
last line once again.

  $ dd if=/proc/swaps bs=1  # usual output
  Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
  /dev/dm-0                               partition	4194812	97536	-2
  104+0 records in
  104+0 records out
  104 bytes copied

  $ dd if=/proc/swaps bs=40 skip=1    # last line was generated twice
  dd: /proc/swaps: cannot skip to specified offset
  v/dm-0                               partition	4194812	97536	-2
  /dev/dm-0                               partition	4194812	97536	-2
  3+1 records in
  3+1 records out
  131 bytes copied

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206283

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd8cfd7b-ac95-9b91-f9e7-e8438bd5047d@virtuozzo.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f1f6a7dd
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