The patch titled
Subject: mm/swapfile.c: swap_next should increase position index
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
swap_next-should-increase-position-index.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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 1f4aace60b0e ("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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~swap_next-should-increase-position-index
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2737,10 +2737,10 @@ static void *swap_next(struct seq_file *
else
type = si->type + 1;
+ ++(*pos);
for (; (si = swap_type_to_swap_info(type)); type++) {
if (!(si->flags & SWP_USED) || !si->swap_map)
continue;
- ++*pos;
return si;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
