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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-10-01 14:20:22 -0700
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-10-25 21:18:21 -0400
commit4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e (patch)
tree18abb41325273d23ae271e49627f01054c5baeb6 /fs/proc
parentba10f486658c0ca1bc84c936f6a996e40d071453 (diff)
downloadlinux-4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e.tar.bz2
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 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index dc5d5f51f3fe..fb2a5abd4e4f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -771,6 +771,8 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_single_file_operations = {
static int mem_open(struct inode* inode, struct file* file)
{
file->private_data = (void*)((long)current->self_exec_id);
+ /* OK to pass negative loff_t, we can catch out-of-range */
+ file->f_mode |= FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET;
return 0;
}