The present unix_stream_read_generic contains various code sequences of the form err = -EDISASTER; if (<test>) goto out; This has the unfortunate side effect of possibly causing the error code to bleed through to the final out: return copied ? : err; and then to be wrongly returned if no data was copied because the caller didn't supply a data buffer, as demonstrated by the program available at http://pad.lv/1540731 Change it such that err is only set if an error condition was detected. Signed-off-by: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- With unlikely() added to the two leading error checks. I've also checked that this actually generates better code (for me at least). Without an annotation, the non-blocking read case is treated like the others, ie, a jump to some code at the end of the function loading the error code into a register, followed by a 2nd jump to the termination sequence. diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index 49d5093..c1e4dd7 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -2277,13 +2277,15 @@ static int unix_stream_read_generic(struct unix_stream_read_state *state) size_t size = state->size; unsigned int last_len; - err = -EINVAL; - if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) + if (unlikely(sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED)) { + err = -EINVAL; goto out; + } - err = -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (flags & MSG_OOB) + if (unlikely(flags & MSG_OOB)) { + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto out; + } target = sock_rcvlowat(sk, flags & MSG_WAITALL, size); timeo = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, noblock); @@ -2329,9 +2331,11 @@ again: goto unlock; unix_state_unlock(sk); - err = -EAGAIN; - if (!timeo) + if (!timeo) { + err = -EAGAIN; break; + } + mutex_unlock(&u->readlock); timeo = unix_stream_data_wait(sk, timeo, last, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html