linux/block
Jianpeng Ma 0676806707 block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start()
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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-03 10:42:00 +02:00
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blk-cgroup.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-cgroup.h blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
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blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: split discard into aligned requests 2012-08-02 09:48:50 +02:00
blk-map.c block: re-use existing 'reading' variable instead of checking direction again 2011-12-21 15:27:24 +01:00
blk-merge.c block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper 2012-08-02 23:42:04 +02:00
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blk-softirq.c sched, block: Unify cache detection 2012-01-27 13:28:48 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-tag.c block: fix blk_queue_end_tag() 2011-12-29 09:16:28 +01:00
blk-throttle.c block: allocate io_context upfront 2012-06-25 11:53:50 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue() 2012-06-15 08:46:23 +02:00
blk.h block: remove dead func declaration 2012-08-01 12:25:54 +02:00
bsg-lib.c block: drop custom queue draining used by scsi_transport_{iscsi|fc} 2012-06-25 11:53:48 +02:00
bsg.c bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning 2012-02-08 20:02:03 +01:00
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elevator.c blkcg: implement per-queue policy activation 2012-04-20 10:06:06 +02:00
genhd.c block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start() 2012-08-03 10:42:00 +02:00
ioctl.c block: add partition resize function to blkpg ioctl 2012-08-01 12:24:18 +02:00
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