[PATCH] deal with the first call of ->show() generating no output
seq_read() has a subtle bug - we want the first loop there to go
until at least one *non-empty* record had fit entirely into buffer.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 5d54205..bd20f7f 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@
goto Done;
}
/* we need at least one record in buffer */
+ pos = m->index;
+ p = m->op->start(m, &pos);
while (1) {
- pos = m->index;
- p = m->op->start(m, &pos);
err = PTR_ERR(p);
if (!p || IS_ERR(p))
break;
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@
break;
if (unlikely(err))
m->count = 0;
+ if (unlikely(!m->count)) {
+ p = m->op->next(m, p, &pos);
+ m->index = pos;
+ continue;
+ }
if (m->count < m->size)
goto Fill;
m->op->stop(m, p);
@@ -128,6 +133,8 @@
goto Enomem;
m->count = 0;
m->version = 0;
+ pos = m->index;
+ p = m->op->start(m, &pos);
}
m->op->stop(m, p);
m->count = 0;