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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 0eeb3954dea3..6b96773e27cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -411,3 +411,13 @@ to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...). argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask. generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; if you want non-NULL to be used for that inode, put it into ->i_op->check_acl. + +-- +[mandatory] + If you implement your own ->llseek() you must handle SEEK_HOLE and +SEEK_DATA. You can hanle this by returning -EINVAL, but it would be nicer to +support it in some way. The generic handler assumes that the entire file is +data and there is a virtual hole at the end of the file. So if the provided +offset is less than i_size and SEEK_DATA is specified, return the same offset. +If the above is true for the offset and you are given SEEK_HOLE, return the end +of the file. If the offset is i_size or greater return -ENXIO in either case. |