This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: android: ashmem: lseek failed due to no FMODE_LSEEK. to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: staging-android-ashmem-lseek-failed-due-to-no-fmode_lseek.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 97fbfef6bd597888485b653175fb846c6998b60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shuxiao Zhang <zhangshuxiao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:30:29 +0800 Subject: staging: android: ashmem: lseek failed due to no FMODE_LSEEK. From: Shuxiao Zhang <zhangshuxiao@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 97fbfef6bd597888485b653175fb846c6998b60c upstream. vfs_llseek will check whether the file mode has FMODE_LSEEK, no return failure. But ashmem can be lseek, so add FMODE_LSEEK to ashmem file. Comment From Greg Hackmann: ashmem_llseek() passes the llseek() call through to the backing shmem file. 91360b02ab48 ("ashmem: use vfs_llseek()") changed this from directly calling the file's llseek() op into a VFS layer call. This also adds a check for the FMODE_LSEEK bit, so without that bit ashmem_llseek() now always fails with -ESPIPE. Fixes: 91360b02ab48 ("ashmem: use vfs_llseek()") Signed-off-by: Shuxiao Zhang <zhangshuxiao@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file ret = PTR_ERR(vmfile); goto out; } + vmfile->f_mode |= FMODE_LSEEK; asma->file = vmfile; } get_file(asma->file); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhangshuxiao@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/staging-android-ashmem-lseek-failed-due-to-no-fmode_lseek.patch