Patch "sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sysfs-correctly-handle-read-offset-on-prealloc-attrs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 17d0774f80681020eccc9638d925a23f1fc4f671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:42:16 +0300
Subject: sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>

commit 17d0774f80681020eccc9638d925a23f1fc4f671 upstream.

Attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which returns
zero bytes for non-zero offset. This breaks script checkarray in mdadm tool
in debian where /bin/sh is 'dash' because its builtin 'read' reads only one
byte at a time. Script gets 'i' instead of 'idle' when reads current action
from /sys/block/$dev/md/sync_action and as a result does nothing.

This patch adds trivial implementation of partial read: generate whole
string and move required part into buffer head.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Fixes: 4ef67a8c95f3 ("sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.")
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/sysfs/file.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -114,9 +114,15 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kern
 	 * If buf != of->prealloc_buf, we don't know how
 	 * large it is, so cannot safely pass it to ->show
 	 */
-	if (pos || WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
 		return 0;
 	len = ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
+	if (pos) {
+		if (len <= pos)
+			return 0;
+		len -= pos;
+		memmove(buf, buf + pos, len);
+	}
 	return min(count, len);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru are

queue-4.7/sysfs-correctly-handle-read-offset-on-prealloc-attrs.patch