[44/80] /proc/vmcore: fix seeking

[Greg KH]

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

commit c227e69028473c7c7994a9b0a2cc0034f3f7e0fe upstream.

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@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/proc/vmcore.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/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)


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