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/proc/vmcore: fix seeking

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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.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is zero on procfs and some other virtual
file systems.  We should merge generic_file_llseek and default_llseek some
day and clean this up in a proper way, but for 2.6.35/36, reverting vmcore
is the safer solution.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann 2010-09-22 13:04:54 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a9e31765e7
commit c227e69028
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@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static ssize_t read_vmcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
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)