From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:29:27 +0100
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
	Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:21:19PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>  struct proc_fdinfo {
> -	loff_t	f_pos;
> -	int	f_flags;
> +	struct file	*f_file;
> +	int		f_flags;
>  };

> +	struct proc_fdinfo *fdinfo;
> +	struct seq_file *m;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	fdinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*fdinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!fdinfo)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

> +	ret = single_open(file, seq_show, fdinfo);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		put_filp(fdinfo->f_file);
> +		goto err_free;
>  	}
>  
> +	m = file->private_data;
> +	m->private = fdinfo;

This, BTW, is too convoluted for its own good.  What you need is
something like
struct whatever {
	struct seq_file *m;
	struct file *f;
	int flags;
};
with single allocation of that sucker in your ->open().  Set
file->private_data to address of seq_file field in your object *before*
calling seq_open() and don't bother with m->private at all - just use
container_of(m, struct whatever, m) in your ->show() to get to that
structure...