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authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>2010-09-16 14:43:09 +0530
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-10-21 17:44:04 +1030
commit299fb61c08c2fcd1bb6d3a4e87e53dc368475416 (patch)
tree85a4dd7406b44c8e95c4618c5cb90ae92987cd85 /drivers/char/virtio_console.c
parenta461e11e7b8ca2705889bcf9582f6a8f84884bd2 (diff)
virtio: console: Disable lseek(2) for port file operations
The ports are char devices; do not have seeking capabilities. Calling nonseekable_open() from the fops_open() call and setting the llseek fops pointer to no_llseek ensures an lseek() call from userspace returns -ESPIPE. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/virtio_console.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index dc42d5689483..6c1b676643a9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -809,6 +809,8 @@ static int port_fops_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
reclaim_consumed_buffers(port);
spin_unlock_irq(&port->outvq_lock);
+ nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
+
/* Notify host of port being opened */
send_control_msg(filp->private_data, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_OPEN, 1);
@@ -840,6 +842,7 @@ static const struct file_operations port_fops = {
.poll = port_fops_poll,
.release = port_fops_release,
.fasync = port_fops_fasync,
+ .llseek = no_llseek,
};
/*