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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-04-06 14:35:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-07 08:38:04 -0700
commitee5d2acd5ca1534f40e06d4f0d41a940b17beb54 (patch)
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parentb1dd3b2843b3b73b7fc2ee47d96310cd1c051371 (diff)
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/dev/mem: allow rewinding
commit dcefafb6 ("/dev/mem: dont allow seek to last page") inadvertently disabled rewinding on /dev/mem. This broke x86info for example. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mem.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 47c8452f485f..9cdbadc68608 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -710,11 +710,6 @@ static loff_t memory_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
switch (orig) {
case SEEK_CUR:
offset += file->f_pos;
- if ((unsigned long long)offset <
- (unsigned long long)file->f_pos) {
- ret = -EOVERFLOW;
- break;
- }
case SEEK_SET:
/* to avoid userland mistaking f_pos=-9 as -EBADF=-9 */
if ((unsigned long long)offset >= ~0xFFFULL) {