linux-kernel - [char-misc-next] mei: don't update offset in write

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Date:   Mon,  9 Jul 2018 12:21:44 +0300
From:   Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: [char-misc-next] mei: don't update offset in write

From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>

MEI enables writes of complete messages only
while read can be performed in parts, hence
write should not update the file offset to
not break interleaving partial reads with writes.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index f690918f7817..302ba7a63bd2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -312,7 +312,6 @@ static ssize_t mei_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 		}
 	}
 
-	*offset = 0;
 	cb = mei_cl_alloc_cb(cl, length, MEI_FOP_WRITE, file);
 	if (!cb) {
 		rets = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.14.4