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fs: allocate structure unconditionally in seq_open()
authorYann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:57:33 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Jul 2015 02:44:57 +0000 (19:44 -0700)
commitda721983af1cb99bfc624bf32fbf9b7602ff0179
tree964d5a53219d3a89986518472c408253f4eaa1d4
parent5177adea0f3a23f357e61696d3c5461e7044c9e9
fs: allocate structure unconditionally in seq_open()

Since patch described below, from v2.6.15-rc1, seq_open() could use a
struct seq_file already allocated by the caller if the pointer to the
structure is stored in file->private_data before calling the function.

    Commit 936fb0e6105d1601ee7687b7d46a04ef4c4e7447
    Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Date:   Mon Nov 7 17:15:34 2005 -0500

        [PATCH] allow callers of seq_open do allocation themselves

        Allow caller of seq_open() to kmalloc() seq_file + whatever else they
        want and set ->private_data to it.  seq_open() will then abstain from
        doing allocation itself.

As there's no more use for such feature, as it could be easily replaced by
calls to seq_open_private() (see commit cf3c5c47bae7 ("[FS] seq_file:
Introduce the seq_open_private()")) and seq_release_private() (see
v2.6.0-test3), support for this uncommon feature can be removed from
seq_open().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1433193673.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/seq_file.c