This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
/proc/kcore: fix seeking
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
proc-kcore-fix-seeking.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ceff1a770933e2ca2bf995b453dade4ec47a9878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Anderson <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:00:36 -0800
Subject: /proc/kcore: fix seeking
From: Dave Anderson <[email protected]>
commit ceff1a770933e2ca2bf995b453dade4ec47a9878 upstream.
Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore. This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.
The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.
A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.
Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/proc/kcore.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static int open_kcore(struct inode *inod
static const struct file_operations proc_kcore_operations = {
.read = read_kcore,
.open = open_kcore,
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .llseek = default_llseek,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/proc-kcore-fix-seeking.patch
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