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tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
authorSlava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:13:16 +0000 (15:13 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:43:10 +0000 (14:43 -0800)
commit43807eba1303b4b4606debd444f4fdc93ef560d7
treef649dfb71aac90f5c0324ba60e7e81e1982286fc
parent21f29a80fc8f7c399cb6f068ef01ec05a305ecfd
tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing

commit 364829b1263b44aa60383824e4c1289d83d78ca7 upstream.

The file_ops struct for the "trace" special file defined llseek as seq_lseek().
However, if the file was opened for writing only, seq_open() was not called,
and the seek would dereference a null pointer, file->private_data.

This patch introduces a new wrapper for seq_lseek() which checks if the file
descriptor is opened for reading first. If not, it does nothing.

Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290640396-24179-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/trace/trace.c