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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:52:19 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Cc:	lguest@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tomvanbraeckel@...il.com, Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lguest: explicitly set miscdevice's private_data NULL

Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de> writes:
> There is a proposed change to the miscdevice's behaviour on open(). Currently
> file->private_data stays NULL, but only because we don't have an open-entry in
> struct file_operations.
>
> This may change so that private_data, more consistently, is always set to
> struct miscdevice, not only *if* the driver has it's own open() routine and
> fops-entry, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/4/939 and commit
> 94e4fe2cab3d43b3ba7c3f721743006a8c9d913a
>
> In short: If we rely on file->private_data being NULL, we should ensure
> it is NULL ourselves.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>

OK, applied.

Thanks,
Rusty.

> ---
>  drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
> index c4c6113..30c6068 100644
> --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
> +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
> @@ -339,6 +339,13 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *in,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static int open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> +{
> +	file->private_data = NULL;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  /*L:060
>   * The final piece of interface code is the close() routine.  It reverses
>   * everything done in initialize().  This is usually called because the
> @@ -409,6 +416,7 @@ static int close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>   */
>  static const struct file_operations lguest_fops = {
>  	.owner	 = THIS_MODULE,
> +	.open	 = open,
>  	.release = close,
>  	.write	 = write,
>  	.read	 = read,
> -- 
> 2.1.4
>
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