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| author |   KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2010-10-01 14:20:22 -0700 |
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| committer |   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2010-10-25 21:18:21 -0400 |
| commit | 4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e (patch) | |
| tree | 18abb41325273d23ae271e49627f01054c5baeb6 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | hostfs: fix UML crash: remove f_spare from hostfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e.tar.xz linux-dev-4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e.zip | |
vfs: introduce FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET for allowing negative f_pos
Now, rw_verify_area() checsk f_pos is negative or not. And if negative,
returns -EINVAL.
But, some special files as /dev/(k)mem and /proc/<pid>/mem etc.. has
negative offsets. And we can't do any access via read/write to the
file(device).
So introduce FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET to allow negative file offsets.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 0cd6821013a0..7fc126df1c42 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { /* Expect random access pattern */ #define FMODE_RANDOM ((__force fmode_t)0x1000) +/* File is huge (eg. /dev/kmem): treat loff_t as unsigned */ +#define FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET ((__force fmode_t)0x2000) + /* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */ #define FMODE_NONOTIFY ((__force fmode_t)0x1000000) |