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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /proc/kcore: fix seeking
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:04:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111160437.GF17312@hack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2B1AD5.9000707@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:42:29AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
>From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
>
>Commit 34aacb2920667d405a8df15968b7f71ba46c8f18
>("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore")
>broke seeking on /proc/kcore.  This changes it back
>to use default_llseek in order to restore the original
>behavior.
>
>The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only
>allows seeks up to inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is
>2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file offset values in
>the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
>beyond that offset value.
>

Is the race solved? Using default_llseek() still races
with read_kcore() on fpos, AFAIK.


-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 14:42 [PATCH] /proc/kcore: fix seeking Dave Anderson
2011-01-11  0:52 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-11 16:04 ` Américo Wang [this message]
2011-01-11 16:23   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-14  9:44     ` Américo Wang
2011-01-14 16:29       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-17  8:06         ` Américo Wang

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