Subject: [merged] mm-readaheadc-fix-do_readahead-for-no-readpages.patch removed from -mm tree To: mark.rutland@xxxxxxx,kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:05:20 -0800 The patch titled Subject: mm/readahead.c: fix do_readahead() for no readpage(s) has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-readaheadc-fix-do_readahead-for-no-readpages.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/readahead.c: fix do_readahead() for no readpage(s) 63d0f0a3c7e1 (mm/readahead.c:do_readhead(): don't check for ->readpage) unintentionally made do_readahead return 0 for all valid files regardless of whether readahead was supported, rather than the expected -EINVAL. This gets forwarded on to userspace, and results in sys_readahead appearing to succeed in cases that don't make sense (e.g. when called on pipes or sockets). This issue is detected by the LTP readahead01 testcase. As the exact return value of force_page_cache_readahead is currently never used, we can simplify it to return only 0 or -EINVAL (when readpage or readpages is missing). With that in place we can simply forward on the return value of force_page_cache_readahead in do_readahead. This patch performs said change, restoring the expected semantics. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/readahead.c~mm-readaheadc-fix-do_readahead-for-no-readpages mm/readahead.c --- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-readaheadc-fix-do_readahead-for-no-readpages +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -211,8 +211,6 @@ out: int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read) { - int ret = 0; - if (unlikely(!mapping->a_ops->readpage && !mapping->a_ops->readpages)) return -EINVAL; @@ -226,15 +224,13 @@ int force_page_cache_readahead(struct ad this_chunk = nr_to_read; err = __do_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, offset, this_chunk, 0); - if (err < 0) { - ret = err; - break; - } - ret += err; + if (err < 0) + return err; + offset += this_chunk; nr_to_read -= this_chunk; } - return ret; + return 0; } /* @@ -576,8 +572,7 @@ do_readahead(struct address_space *mappi if (!mapping || !mapping->a_ops) return -EINVAL; - force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, index, nr); - return 0; + return force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, filp, index, nr); } SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readahead, int, fd, loff_t, offset, size_t, count) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html