From: Jiri Olsa Instead of direct updating filp->f_pos we should update *ppos argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write function called from sys_write. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa LKML-Reference: <1256135801-1849-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index b10c0d9..1ed514f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ ftrace_profile_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, out: mutex_unlock(&ftrace_profile_lock); - filp->f_pos += cnt; + *ppos += cnt; return cnt; } diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 026e715..9d3067a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@ tracing_trace_options_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, return ret; } - filp->f_pos += cnt; + *ppos += cnt; return cnt; } @@ -2582,7 +2582,7 @@ tracing_ctrl_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, } mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); - filp->f_pos += cnt; + *ppos += cnt; return cnt; } @@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, if (err) return err; - filp->f_pos += ret; + *ppos += ret; return ret; } @@ -3299,7 +3299,7 @@ tracing_entries_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, } } - filp->f_pos += cnt; + *ppos += cnt; /* If check pages failed, return ENOMEM */ if (tracing_disabled) -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/