4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> commit 1ae2293dd6d2f5c823cf97e60b70d03631cd622f upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -5929,9 +5929,6 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file return -EBUSY; #endif - if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd)) - return -ENOMEM; - if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) return -EINVAL; @@ -5941,6 +5938,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file len &= PAGE_MASK; } + if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd)) + return -ENOMEM; + again: trace_access_lock(iter->cpu_file); entries = ring_buffer_entries_cpu(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file); @@ -5998,19 +5998,21 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file /* did we read anything? */ if (!spd.nr_pages) { if (ret) - return ret; + goto out; + ret = -EAGAIN; if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)) - return -EAGAIN; + goto out; ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, true); if (ret) - return ret; + goto out; goto again; } ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd); +out: splice_shrink_spd(&spd); return ret;