The patch titled
procfs: report EISDIR when reading sysctl dirs in proc
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
procfs-report-eisdir-when-reading-sysctl-dirs-in-proc.patch
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Subject: procfs: report EISDIR when reading sysctl dirs in proc
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx>
On reading sysctl dirs we should return -EISDIR instead of -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~procfs-report-eisdir-when-reading-sysctl-dirs-in-proc fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c~procfs-report-eisdir-when-reading-sysctl-dirs-in-proc
+++ a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc
};
static const struct file_operations proc_sys_dir_file_operations = {
+ .read = generic_read_dir,
.readdir = proc_sys_readdir,
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
};
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xemul@xxxxxxxxxx are
procfs-report-eisdir-when-reading-sysctl-dirs-in-proc.patch
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