staging: comedi: remain busy until read end-of-file
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:21:20 +0000 (17:21 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:29:48 +0000 (10:29 -0700)
If a COMEDI subdevice is busy handling an asynchronous command in the
"read" direction, then after the command has terminated itself, the
"read" file operation handler, `comedi_read()` should keep the subdevice
busy until all available data has been read and it has returned 0 to
indicate an "end-of-file" condition.  Currently, it has a bug where it
can mark the subdevice as non-busy even when returning a non-zero count.
The bug is slightly hidden because the next "read" will return 0 because
the subdevice is no longer busy.  Fix it by checking the return count is
0 before deciding to mark the subdevice as non-busy.

The call to `comedi_is_subdevice_idle()` is superfluous as the
`become_nonbusy` variable will have been set to `true` when considering
becoming non-busy.  Strictly speaking, checking the return count is
superfluous too, as `become_nonbusy` doesn't get set to `true` unless
the count is 0, but check the return count anyway to make the intention
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c

index fe25287c56885c9c07142c6f60b270b174a26c17..bb2e0ae0e0528654252fc730756cc8daf05c57c1 100644 (file)
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ static ssize_t comedi_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes,
        }
        remove_wait_queue(&async->wait_head, &wait);
        set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-       if (become_nonbusy || comedi_is_subdevice_idle(s)) {
+       if (become_nonbusy && count == 0) {
                struct comedi_subdevice *new_s;
 
                /*