From: NeilBrown Most files in the nfsd filesystems are transaction files. You write a request, and read a response. For some (e.g. 'threads') it makes sense to just be able to read and get the current value. This functionality did exist but was broken recently when someone modified nfsctl.c without going through the maintainer. This patch fixes the regression. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c~knfsd-restore-functionality-to-read-from-file-in-proc-fs-nfsd fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c --- 25/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c~knfsd-restore-functionality-to-read-from-file-in-proc-fs-nfsd Fri Oct 14 12:27:30 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c Fri Oct 14 12:27:30 2005 @@ -104,9 +104,23 @@ static ssize_t nfsctl_transaction_write( return rv; } +static ssize_t nfsctl_transaction_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *pos) +{ + if (! file->private_data) { + /* An attempt to read a transaction file without writing + * causes a 0-byte write so that the file can return + * state information + */ + ssize_t rv = nfsctl_transaction_write(file, buf, 0, pos); + if (rv < 0) + return rv; + } + return simple_transaction_read(file, buf, size, pos); +} + static struct file_operations transaction_ops = { .write = nfsctl_transaction_write, - .read = simple_transaction_read, + .read = nfsctl_transaction_read, .release = simple_transaction_release, }; _