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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] vfs: introduce FMODE_NEG_OFFSET for allowing negative f_pos
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:32:49 +0900
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:

> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:
>
> >>> Um... How do lseek() work? It sounds like to violate error code range.
> >>
> >> This is for read-write. As far as I know,
> >> - generic_file_llseek,
> >> - default_llseek
> >> - no_llseek
> >>
> >> doesn't call this function.
> >
> > It seems to allow to set negative value to ->f_pos, right? So, lseek()
> > returns (uses) it?
>
> BTW, another concern by negative "pos" value is, the following like code
>
> pos >> shift_bits
>
> it will break the above. So, I think it should be checked if not yet.

Where do we check ?

FMODE_NEG_OFFSET is just used by /dev/mem and /proc/<pid>/mem. And I don't
think there are no additonal users. So, I myself don't have has such concerns...


Thanks,
-Kame



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