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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Fix lseek on /proc/kcore
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:05:48 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328080548.GA6651@localhost.sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174569275.1158.175.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:14:35PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:56 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > --- a/fs/proc/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> > @@ -167,8 +167,9 @@ static loff_t proc_reg_llseek(struct fil
> >  	llseek = pde->proc_fops->llseek;
> >  	spin_unlock(&pde->pde_unload_lock);
> >
> > -	if (llseek)
> > -		rv = llseek(file, offset, whence);
> > +	if (!llseek)
> > +		llseek = default_llseek;
> > +	rv = llseek(file, offset, whence);
> >
>
> this has potential impact way outside kcore......
>
> did you audit all proc users to see if they can deal with lseek?

Mainline deals with lseek on proc entries as follows:
* use default_llseek()
* but if proc entry set ->llseek via ->proc_fops, use custom llseek

With introduction of proxying, ->llseek was suddenly set on all proc
entries, so default_llseek() was never used, but -E started to be
returned for all of them that were relying on default_llseek().

So this patch brings proc_reg_llseek() in sync with vfs_llseek().


      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22  9:56 [PATCH -mm] Fix lseek on /proc/kcore Alexey Dobriyan
2007-03-22 13:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-28  8:05   ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]

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