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Commit 94fc5d9d authored by Richard Genoud's avatar Richard Genoud Committed by Linus Torvalds
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proc: return on proc_readdir error

Commit f0c3b509 ("[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: default avatarRichard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d6a5e06c
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