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

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 09:58:07 EST


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@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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