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SubjectRe: [PATCH] /proc/kcore: fix seeking
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:42:29AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
>From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
>
>Commit 34aacb2920667d405a8df15968b7f71ba46c8f18
>("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore")
>broke seeking on /proc/kcore. This changes it back
>to use default_llseek in order to restore the original
>behavior.
>
>The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only
>allows seeks up to inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is
>2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file offset values in
>the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
>beyond that offset value.
>

Is the race solved? Using default_llseek() still races
with read_kcore() on fpos, AFAIK.


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