From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:57:36 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fs: document seq_open()'s usage of file->private_data
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=460b865e53c347ebf110e50d499718cd9b39d810;p=linux-beck.git

fs: document seq_open()'s usage of file->private_data

seq_open() stores its struct seq_file in file->private_data, thus it must
not be modified by user of seq_file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1433193673.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 5f163c6c821c..760e25dad985 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
  *	ERR_PTR(error).  In the end of sequence they return %NULL. ->show()
  *	returns 0 in case of success and negative number in case of error.
  *	Returning SEQ_SKIP means "discard this element and move on".
+ *	Note: seq_open() will allocate a struct seq_file and store its
+ *	pointer in @file->private_data. This pointer should not be modified.
  */
 int seq_open(struct file *file, const struct seq_operations *op)
 {