From: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:49:01 +0100
> When generating /proc/net/route we emit a header followed by a line for
> each route. When a short read is performed we will restart this process
> based on the open file descriptor. When calculating the start point we
> fail to take into account that the 0th entry is the header. This leads
> us to skip the first entry when doing a continuation read.
>
> This can be easily seen with the comparison below:
>
> while read l; do echo "$l"; done </proc/net/route >A
> cat /proc/net/route >B
> diff -bu A B | grep '^[+-]'
>
> On my example machine I have approximatly 10KB of route output. There we
> see the very first non-title element is lost in the while read case,
> and an entry around the 8K mark in the cat case:
>
> +wlan0 00000000 02021EAC 0003 0 0 400 00000000 0 0 0
> -tun1 00C0AC0A 00000000 0001 0 0 950 00C0FFFF 0 0 0
>
> Fix up the off-by-one when reaquiring position on continuation.
>
> Fixes: 8be33e955cb9 ("fib_trie: Fib walk rcu should take a tnode and key
> instead of a trie and a leaf")
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1483440
> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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