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1From cf5eebae2cd28d37581507668605f4d23cd7218d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
3Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:34:58 +0100
4Subject: seq_file: fix incomplete reset on read from zero offset
5
6From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
7
8commit cf5eebae2cd28d37581507668605f4d23cd7218d upstream.
9
10When resetting iterator on a zero offset we need to discard any data
11already in the buffer (count), and private state of the iterator (version).
12
13For example this bug results in first line being repeated in /proc/mounts
14if doing a zero size read before a non-zero size read.
15
16Reported-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
17Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
18Fixes: e522751d605d ("seq_file: reset iterator to first record for zero offset")
19Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.10
20Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
21Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
22
23---
24 fs/seq_file.c | 5 ++++-
25 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
26
27--- a/fs/seq_file.c
28+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
29@@ -181,8 +181,11 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char
30 * if request is to read from zero offset, reset iterator to first
31 * record as it might have been already advanced by previous requests
32 */
33- if (*ppos == 0)
34+ if (*ppos == 0) {
35 m->index = 0;
36+ m->version = 0;
37+ m->count = 0;
38+ }
39
40 /* Don't assume *ppos is where we left it */
41 if (unlikely(*ppos != m->read_pos)) {