From 815d2d50da41f28aae58f5e9b3c61c3094422749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:09:07 -0800
Subject: driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.

Try to find the culprit who caused
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150

Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 fs/sysfs/file.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'fs/sysfs')

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index a271c87c447..baa663e6938 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
+#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
@@ -86,7 +87,12 @@ static int fill_read_buffer(struct dentry * dentry, struct sysfs_buffer * buffer
 	 * The code works fine with PAGE_SIZE return but it's likely to
 	 * indicate truncated result or overflow in normal use cases.
 	 */
-	BUG_ON(count >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
+	if (count >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE) {
+		print_symbol("fill_read_buffer: %s returned bad count\n",
+			(unsigned long)ops->show);
+		/* Try to struggle along */
+		count = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
+	}
 	if (count >= 0) {
 		buffer->needs_read_fill = 0;
 		buffer->count = count;
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