The patch titled
/proc/vmcore: fix seeking
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
proc-vmcore-fix-seeking.patch
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Subject: /proc/vmcore: fix seeking
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Commit 73296bc611 "procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/vmcore" broke
seeking on /proc/vmcore. This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-vmcore-fix-seeking fs/proc/vmcore.c
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~proc-vmcore-fix-seeking
+++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static ssize_t read_vmcore(struct file *
static const struct file_operations proc_vmcore_operations = {
.read = read_vmcore,
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = default_llseek,
};
static struct vmcore* __init get_new_element(void)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
proc-vmcore-fix-seeking.patch
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