From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>

Added a 'left' variable to make the flow clearer, and added a debug
check for the return value - returning 'n' is more obvious.

Added small comment for readn.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Original-patch-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/util.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 9440481e9092..6ea0b4ae9569 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #endif
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
 
 /*
  * XXX We need to find a better place for these things...
@@ -151,21 +152,26 @@ unsigned long convert_unit(unsigned long value, char 
*unit)
        return value;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Read exactly 'n' bytes or return an error.
+ */
 ssize_t readn(int fd, void *buf, size_t n)
 {
        void *buf_start = buf;
+       size_t left = n;
 
-       while (n) {
-               ssize_t ret = read(fd, buf, n);
+       while (left) {
+               ssize_t ret = read(fd, buf, left);
 
                if (ret <= 0)
                        return ret;
 
-               n -= ret;
-               buf += ret;
+               left -= ret;
+               buf  += ret;
        }
 
-       return buf - buf_start;
+       BUG_ON((size_t)(buf - buf_start) != n);
+       return n;
 }
 
 size_t hex_width(u64 v)
-- 
1.8.1.4

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