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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-03-28 00:46:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-04-21 23:14:02 -0400 |
| commit | 521b5d0c40386f4a9805cdec7bd979fc96a86aeb (patch) | |
| tree | 2193c12ee3dc0551790c79370603acb57e0f59e7 /fs/seq_file.c | |
| parent | 4e1b36fb485dd81b0818ef1bc8fb5c0f2923a283 (diff) | |
| download | linux-stable-521b5d0c40386f4a9805cdec7bd979fc96a86aeb.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] teach seq_file to discard entries
Allow ->show() return SEQ_SKIP; that will discard all
output from that element and move on.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/seq_file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/seq_file.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index 853770274f20..bf2bcfd4bcfb 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ * into the buffer. In case of error ->start() and ->next() return * ERR_PTR(error). In the end of sequence they return %NULL. ->show() * returns 0 in case of success and negative number in case of error. + * Returning SEQ_SKIP means "discard this element and move on". */ int seq_open(struct file *file, const struct seq_operations *op) { @@ -114,8 +115,10 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos) if (!p || IS_ERR(p)) break; err = m->op->show(m, p); - if (err) + if (err < 0) break; + if (unlikely(err)) + m->count = 0; if (m->count < m->size) goto Fill; m->op->stop(m, p); @@ -140,9 +143,10 @@ Fill: break; } err = m->op->show(m, p); - if (err || m->count == m->size) { + if (m->count == m->size || err) { m->count = offs; - break; + if (likely(err <= 0)) + break; } pos = next; } @@ -199,8 +203,12 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset) if (IS_ERR(p)) break; error = m->op->show(m, p); - if (error) + if (error < 0) break; + if (unlikely(error)) { + error = 0; + m->count = 0; + } if (m->count == m->size) goto Eoverflow; if (pos + m->count > offset) { |