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author | Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> | 2008-11-11 01:08:08 (GMT) |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2009-01-05 16:53:07 (GMT) |
commit | 5b6f1eb97d462a45be3b30759758b5fdbb562c8c (patch) | |
tree | e8f664c34dde71b95955f57caad3093581be87ef /firmware | |
parent | 7d3b56ba37a95f1f370f50258ed3954c304c524b (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-5b6f1eb97d462a45be3b30759758b5fdbb562c8c.tar.xz |
vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
This patch fixes a race condition in lseek. While it is expected that
unpredictable behaviour may result while repositioning the offset of a
file descriptor concurrently with reading/writing to the same file
descriptor, this should not happen when merely *reading* the file
descriptor's offset.
Unfortunately, the only portable way in Unix to read a file
descriptor's offset is lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); however executing this
concurrently with read/write may mess up the position.
[with fixes from akpm]
Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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