Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter

Al Viro
2020-11-14T01:18:01Z

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 04:54:53PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

> This patch in -next (6a9f696d1627bacc91d1cebcfb177f474484e8ba) breaks
> WSL2's interoperability feature, where Windows paths automatically get
> added to PATH on start up so that Windows binaries can be accessed from
> within Linux (such as clip.exe to pipe output to the clipboard). Before,
> I would see a bunch of Linux + Windows folders in $PATH but after, I
> only see the Linux folders (I can give you the actual PATH value if you
> care but it is really long).
>
> I am not at all familiar with the semantics of this patch or how
> Microsoft would be using it to inject folders into PATH (they have some
> documentation on it here:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop) and I am not sure
> how to go about figuring that out to see why this patch breaks something
> (unless you have an idea). I have added the Hyper-V maintainers and list
> to CC in case they know someone who could help.

Out of curiosity: could you slap WARN_ON(!iov_iter_count(iter)); right in
the beginning of seq_read_iter() and see if that triggers?