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If you use lseek or similar (e.g. pread) to access a location in a seq_file file that is within a record, rather than at a record boundary, then the first read will return the remainder of the record, and the second read will return the whole of that same record (instead of the next record). When seeking to a record boundary, the next record is correctly returned. This bug was introduced by a recent patch (identified below). Before that patch, seq_read() would increment m->index when the last of the buffer was returned (m->count == 0). After that patch, we rely on ->next to increment m->index after filling the buffer - but there was one place where that didn't happen. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/877e7xl029.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name/ Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reported-by: Sergei Turchanov <turchanov@farpost.com> Tested-by: Sergei Turchanov <turchanov@farpost.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.