seq_file: fix mishandling of consecutive pread() invocations.
The following program illustrates the problem: char buf[8192]; int fd = open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY); n = pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0); printf("%d\n", n); /* lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); */ /* Uncomment to work around */ n = pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0); printf("%d\n", n); The second printf() prints zero, but uncommenting the lseek() corrects its behaviour. To fix, make seq_read() mirror seq_lseek() when processing changes in *ppos. Restore m->version first, then if required traverse and update read_pos on success. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11856 Signed-off-by:Earl Chew <echew@ixiacom.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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