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authorjan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>2010-05-27 01:44:48 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 20:12:56 +0400
commitae6afc3f5cf53fb97bac2d0a209bb465952742e7 (patch)
tree541e3f4ed4f2600ffe239e2f23341055199329b1
parent09eeb1f5f4d9b52ab57820160dea6027bbea82a3 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae6afc3f5cf53fb97bac2d0a209bb465952742e7.tar.xz
vfs: introduce noop_llseek()
This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
-rw-r--r--fs/read_write.c17
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 113386d6fd2d..9c0485236e68 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek);
+/**
+ * noop_llseek - No Operation Performed llseek implementation
+ * @file: file structure to seek on
+ * @offset: file offset to seek to
+ * @origin: type of seek
+ *
+ * This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when
+ * userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not
+ * able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of
+ * falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.
+ */
+loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ return file->f_pos;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_llseek);
+
loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
return -ESPIPE;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b336cb9ca9a0..9682d52d1507 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2228,6 +2228,7 @@ extern long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct file *out,
extern void
file_ra_state_init(struct file_ra_state *ra, struct address_space *mapping);
+extern loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
extern loff_t generic_file_llseek_unlocked(struct file *file, loff_t offset,