For now, the others filesystems, such as ext4, f2fs, ubifs,
all of them return ENXIO when lseek with a negative offset.
It is better to let tmpfs return ENXIO too. After that, tmpfs
can also pass generic/448.
Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 0376c124..f37bf06 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2608,9 +2608,7 @@ static loff_t shmem_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
inode_lock(inode);
/* We're holding i_mutex so we can access i_size directly */
- if (offset < 0)
- offset = -EINVAL;
- else if (offset >= inode->i_size)
+ if (offset < 0 || offset >= inode->i_size)
offset = -ENXIO;
else {
start = offset >> PAGE_SHIFT;
--
2.7.4
