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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/seq_buf.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/seq_buf.c b/lib/seq_buf.c index 45c450f423fa..b7477aefff53 100644 --- a/lib/seq_buf.c +++ b/lib/seq_buf.c @@ -324,23 +324,24 @@ int seq_buf_path(struct seq_buf *s, const struct path *path, const char *esc) * seq_buf_to_user - copy the sequence buffer to user space * @s: seq_buf descriptor * @ubuf: The userspace memory location to copy to + * @start: The first byte in the buffer to copy * @cnt: The amount to copy * * Copies the sequence buffer into the userspace memory pointed to - * by @ubuf. It starts from the last read position (@s->readpos) - * and writes up to @cnt characters or till it reaches the end of - * the content in the buffer (@s->len), which ever comes first. + * by @ubuf. It starts from @start and writes up to @cnt characters + * or until it reaches the end of the content in the buffer (@s->len), + * whichever comes first. * * On success, it returns a positive number of the number of bytes * it copied. * * On failure it returns -EBUSY if all of the content in the * sequence has been already read, which includes nothing in the - * sequence (@s->len == @s->readpos). + * sequence (@s->len == @start). * * Returns -EFAULT if the copy to userspace fails. */ -int seq_buf_to_user(struct seq_buf *s, char __user *ubuf, int cnt) +int seq_buf_to_user(struct seq_buf *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t start, int cnt) { int len; int ret; @@ -350,20 +351,17 @@ int seq_buf_to_user(struct seq_buf *s, char __user *ubuf, int cnt) len = seq_buf_used(s); - if (len <= s->readpos) + if (len <= start) return -EBUSY; - len -= s->readpos; + len -= start; if (cnt > len) cnt = len; - ret = copy_to_user(ubuf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt); + ret = copy_to_user(ubuf, s->buffer + start, cnt); if (ret == cnt) return -EFAULT; - cnt -= ret; - - s->readpos += cnt; - return cnt; + return cnt - ret; } /** |