dump_emit() has a retry loop, but there seems to be no way for that retry
logic to actually be used; and it was also buggy, writing the same data
repeatedly after a short write.
Let's just bail out on a short write.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-3-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ssize_t n;
if (cprm->written + nr > cprm->limit)
return 0;
- while (nr) {
- if (dump_interrupted())
- return 0;
- n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos);
- if (n <= 0)
- return 0;
- file->f_pos = pos;
- cprm->written += n;
- cprm->pos += n;
- nr -= n;
- }
+
+
+ if (dump_interrupted())
+ return 0;
+ n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos);
+ if (n != nr)
+ return 0;
+ file->f_pos = pos;
+ cprm->written += n;
+ cprm->pos += n;
+
return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_emit);