The following reply was made to PR kern/163076; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Petr Salinger <petr.salin...@seznam.cz>
To: m...@freebsd.org
Cc: Jaakko Heinonen <j...@freebsd.org>,
=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <d...@des.no>,
Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>, bug-follo...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/163076: It is not possible to read in chunks from linprocfs
and procfs.
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:18:00 +0100 (CET)
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>> As I wrote existing code depends on sbuf_len() to return the actual
>> length regardless of the error status after sbuf_finish(). I am not
>> willing to through all code using sbufs to check where it causes
>> problems. phk@ asserts that r222004 is correct.
>
> What is causing sbuf to have an error in the first place? The size of
> flies in /proc are generally small and malloc(3) errors are rare.
In this particular case, the userland wants to read first n bytes,
the sbuf is allocated as fixed for n bytes.
The first n bytes are generated and correctly stored in sbuf,
for the rest bytes, there is no space in sbuf, but these bytes are not
needed later anyway.
In stable-8,
sbuf_data(sb) point to data, the sbuf_len(sb) returns number of stored
bytes.
In stable-9,
sbuf_data(sb) point to data, the sbuf_len(sb) returns -1.
Petr
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