tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
authorSlava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:13:16 +0000 (15:13 -0800)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:15:39 +0000 (22:15 +0100)
commitab42f1f2ba5bea8d266ed383438ad5652617b366
tree77e7c3f72e4abbceec819ad2f50944c741a5dfb8
parent19e91969bdb9e50973805dfaa7c0e9cd80ab6657
tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing

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 <slavapestov@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290640396-24179-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[wt: applied to tracing_lt_fops too /wt]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
kernel/trace/trace.c