From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] vfs: introduce FMODE_NEG_OFFSET for allowing negative f_pos
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:54:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100721025437.GC2963@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007202229.o6KMTmMF021834@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:29:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Now, rw_verify_area() checsk f_pos is negative or not. And if negative,
> returns -EINVAL.
>
> But, some special files as /dev/(k)mem and /proc/<pid>/mem etc.. has
> negative offsets. And we can't do any access via read/write to the
> file(device).
>
> So introduce FMODE_NEG_OFFSET to allow negative file offsets.
Minor nitpick but I don't understand why this is called NEG_OFFSET. It's
a large positive offset into the file so FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET seems
like it would be better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-21 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 22:29 [patch 3/5] vfs: introduce FMODE_NEG_OFFSET for allowing negative f_pos akpm
2010-07-21 2:54 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-07-21 2:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-21 3:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-21 4:03 ` Andrew Morton
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2010-05-24 19:24 akpm
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