From 4a3956c790290efeb647bbb0c3a90476bb57800e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:20:22 -0700 Subject: 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//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 Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Al Viro Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- drivers/char/mem.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index e985b1c2730e..1256454b2d43 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -876,6 +876,10 @@ static int memory_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) if (dev->dev_info) filp->f_mapping->backing_dev_info = dev->dev_info; + /* Is /dev/mem or /dev/kmem ? */ + if (dev->dev_info == &directly_mappable_cdev_bdi) + filp->f_mode |= FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET; + if (dev->fops->open) return dev->fops->open(inode, filp); -- cgit v1.2.3