From: Slava Pestov 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. Cc: Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov LKML-Reference: <1290640396-24179-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index ee6a733..21db0de 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2339,11 +2339,19 @@ tracing_write_stub(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, return count; } +static loff_t tracing_seek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) +{ + if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) + return seq_lseek(file, offset, origin); + else + return 0; +} + static const struct file_operations tracing_fops = { .open = tracing_open, .read = seq_read, .write = tracing_write_stub, - .llseek = seq_lseek, + .llseek = tracing_seek, .release = tracing_release, }; -- 1.7.2.3 -- 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/