From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH] net: Revert "fib_trie: use seq_file_net rather than seq->private" Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 18:02:32 -0400 Message-ID: <1401919352-32263-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com, Sasha Levin To: davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This reverts commit 30f38d2fdd79f13fc929489f7e6e517b4a4bfe63. fib_triestat is surrounded by a big lie: while it claims that it's a seq_file (fib_triestat_seq_open, fib_triestat_seq_show), it isn't: static const struct file_operations fib_triestat_fops = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, .open = fib_triestat_seq_open, .read = seq_read, .llseek = seq_lseek, .release = single_release_net, }; Yes, fib_triestat is just a regular file. A small detail (assuming CONFIG_NET_NS=y) is that while for seq_files you could do seq_file_net() to get the net ptr, doing so for a regular file would be wrong and would dereference an invalid pointer. The fib_triestat lie claimed a victim, and trying to show the file would be bad for the kernel. This patch just reverts the issue and fixes fib_triestat, which still needs a rewrite to either be a seq_file or stop claiming it is. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c index 243c7f4..5afeb5a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c @@ -2166,7 +2166,7 @@ static void fib_table_print(struct seq_file *seq, struct fib_table *tb) static int fib_triestat_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v) { - struct net *net = seq_file_net(seq); + struct net *net = (struct net *)seq->private; unsigned int h; seq_printf(seq, -- 1.7.10.4