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SubjectRe: [PATCH] af_unix: Don't set err in unix_stream_read_generic unless there was an error
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Hello.

On 02/08/2016 06:33 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

> The present unix_stream_read_generic contains various code sequences of
> the form
>
> err = -EDISASTER;
> if (<test>)
> goto out;
>
> This has the unfortunate side effect of possibly causing the error code
> to bleed through to the final
>
> out:
> return copied ? : err;
>
> and then to be wrongly returned if no data was copied because the caller
> didn't supply a data buffer, as demonstrated by the program available at
>
> http://pad.lv/1540731
>
> Change it such that err is only set if an error condition was detected.
>
> Fixes: 3822b5c2fc62

You also need to specify the patch summary like this: ("<summary").

> Signed-off-by: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei

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