sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs

Attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which returns
zero bytes for non-zero offset. This breaks script checkarray in mdadm tool
in debian where /bin/sh is 'dash' because its builtin 'read' reads only one
byte at a time. Script gets 'i' instead of 'idle' when reads current action
from /sys/block/$dev/md/sync_action and as a result does nothing.

This patch adds trivial implementation of partial read: generate whole
string and move required part into buffer head.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Fixes: 4ef67a8c95f3 ("sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.")
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.19+
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index f35523d4fa3a..b803213d1307 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -114,9 +114,15 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
          * If buf != of->prealloc_buf, we don't know how
          * large it is, so cannot safely pass it to ->show
          */
-        if (pos || WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
+        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
                 return 0;
         len = ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
+        if (pos) {
+                if (len <= pos)
+                        return 0;
+                len -= pos;
+                memmove(buf, buf + pos, len);
+        }
         return min(count, len);
 }