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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@relay.de.ibm.com>2010-08-12 05:13:57 +0200
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2010-08-12 05:13:57 +0200
commit402ab352c2c00ba8f90c724565f8cf31210d99cf (patch)
treed24566917708f1624a7af33bc049aa5dfb24e96c /drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
parentdm: separate device deletion from dm_put (diff)
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dm ioctl: use nonseekable_open
The dm control device does not implement read/write, so it has no use for seeking. Using no_llseek prevents falling back to default_llseek, which requires the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index feb64d65fbfb..3fd8f0e169e7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1602,6 +1602,7 @@ static long dm_compat_ctl_ioctl(struct file *file, uint command, ulong u)
#endif
static const struct file_operations _ctl_fops = {
+ .open = nonseekable_open,
.unlocked_ioctl = dm_ctl_ioctl,
.compat_ioctl = dm_compat_ctl_ioctl,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,