tree 84cc97ed83166e4d9f074dc3d47ba301579f34bf
parent d6a5e06cd17a3f901231e345e4acc1c3dab9fbb8
author Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> 1376929831 +0200
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1376930847 -0700

proc: return on proc_readdir error

Commit f0c3b5093add ("[readdir] convert procfs") introduced a bug on the
listing of the proc file-system.  The return value of proc_readdir()
isn't tested anymore in the proc_root_readdir function.

This lead to an "interesting" behaviour when we are using the getdents()
system call with a buffer too small: instead of failing, it returns the
first entries of /proc (enough to fill the given buffer), plus the PID
directories.

This is not triggered on glibc (as getdents is called with a 32KB
buffer), but on uclibc, the buffer size is only 1KB, thus some proc
entries are missing.

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/12/288 for more background.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>