2.6.27.58-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us 
know.

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From: Slava Pestov <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
[wt: applied to tracing_lt_fops too /wt]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: longterm-2.6.27/kernel/trace/trace.c
===================================================================
--- longterm-2.6.27.orig/kernel/trace/trace.c   2011-01-23 10:52:37.000000000 
+0100
+++ longterm-2.6.27/kernel/trace/trace.c        2011-01-29 11:42:07.287067215 
+0100
@@ -2041,17 +2041,25 @@
        return ret;
 }
 
+static loff_t tracing_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+       if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)
+               return seq_lseek(file, offset, origin);
+       else
+               return 0;
+}
+
 static struct file_operations tracing_fops = {
        .open           = tracing_open,
        .read           = seq_read,
-       .llseek         = seq_lseek,
+       .llseek         = tracing_lseek,
        .release        = tracing_release,
 };
 
 static struct file_operations tracing_lt_fops = {
        .open           = tracing_lt_open,
        .read           = seq_read,
-       .llseek         = seq_lseek,
+       .llseek         = tracing_lseek,
        .release        = tracing_release,
 };
 


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