Commit 46a1c2c7ae53 ("vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules")
broke the tmpfs SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE implementation, because
vfs_setpos() converts the carefully prepared -ENXIO to -EINVAL.
Other filesystems avoid it in error cases: do the same in tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
---

 mm/shmem.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 3.11-rc3/mm/shmem.c 2013-07-14 17:10:16.648003652 -0700
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c    2013-08-04 10:49:52.208372436 -0700
@@ -1798,7 +1798,8 @@ static loff_t shmem_file_llseek(struct f
                }
        }
 
-       offset = vfs_setpos(file, offset, MAX_LFS_FILESIZE);
+       if (offset >= 0)
+               offset = vfs_setpos(file, offset, MAX_LFS_FILESIZE);
        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
        return offset;
 }
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