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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/seq_file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/seq_file.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index d8a0545ad7ea..ce9e39fd5daf 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -48,18 +48,21 @@ static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size) * ERR_PTR(error). In the end of sequence they return %NULL. ->show() * returns 0 in case of success and negative number in case of error. * Returning SEQ_SKIP means "discard this element and move on". + * Note: seq_open() will allocate a struct seq_file and store its + * pointer in @file->private_data. This pointer should not be modified. */ int seq_open(struct file *file, const struct seq_operations *op) { - struct seq_file *p = file->private_data; + struct seq_file *p; + + WARN_ON(file->private_data); + + p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return -ENOMEM; + + file->private_data = p; - if (!p) { - p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!p) - return -ENOMEM; - file->private_data = p; - } - memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); mutex_init(&p->lock); p->op = op; #ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS @@ -552,6 +555,7 @@ int seq_dentry(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *dentry, const char *esc) return res; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_dentry); static void *single_start(struct seq_file *p, loff_t *pos) { |