tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
authorSlava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:13:16 +0000 (15:13 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:58:33 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
commit3ee6c4cf578834e96653b821054cc7fa7246affc
treeea09f47f3c2a7abcaf25a59a74cd31423737cce8
parentccbfc7594abfb470ab719da568e8bbd4265a888d
tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing

commit 364829b1263b44aa60383824e4c1289d83d78ca7 upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290640396-24179-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/trace/trace.c