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From: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
To: axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start().
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:07:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208031307389214790@gmail.com> (raw)

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I met a odd prblem:read /proc/partitions may return zero.

I wrote a file test.c:
int main()
{
	char buff[4096];
	int ret;
	int fd;
	printf("pid=%d\n",getpid());
	while (1) {
		fd = open("/proc/partitions", O_RDONLY);
		if (fd < 0) {
			printf("open error %s\n", strerror(errno));
			return 0;
		}
		ret = read(fd, buff, 4096);
		if (ret <= 0)
			printf("ret=%d, %s, %ld\n", ret,
				strerror(errno), lseek(fd,0,SEEK_CUR));
		close(fd);
	}
	exit(0);
}

You can reproduce by:
1:while true;do cat /proc/partitions > /dev/null ;done
2:./test

I reviewed the code and found:
>>static void *show_partition_start(struct seq_file *seqf, loff_t *pos)
>>{
>>	static void *p;

>>	p = disk_seqf_start(seqf, pos);
>>	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p) && !*pos)
>>		seq_puts(seqf, "major minor  #blocks  name\n\n");
>>	return p;
>>}
		test								cat /proc/partitions
	p = disk_seqf_start()(Not NULL)
									p = disk_seqf_start()(NULL because pos)
	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p) && !*pos)

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
---
 block/genhd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index cac7366..d839723 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ static void disk_seqf_stop(struct seq_file *seqf, void *v)
 
 static void *show_partition_start(struct seq_file *seqf, loff_t *pos)
 {
-	static void *p;
+	void *p;
 
 	p = disk_seqf_start(seqf, pos);
 	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p) && !*pos)
-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03  5:07 majianpeng [this message]
2012-08-03  8:41 ` [PATCH] block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start() Jens Axboe
2012-08-12 15:45   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-13  0:38     ` Jianpeng Ma

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