The ports are char devices; do not have seeking capabilities. Calling
nonseekable_open() from the fops_open() call and setting the llseek fops
pointer to no_llseek ensures an lseek() call from userspace returns
-ESPIPE.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <redacted>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 2dbcd41..28718a9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -798,6 +798,8 @@ static int port_fops_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
reclaim_consumed_buffers(port);
spin_unlock_irq(&port->outvq_lock);
+ nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
+
/* Notify host of port being opened */
send_control_msg(filp->private_data, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_OPEN, 1);
@@ -829,6 +831,7 @@ static const struct file_operations port_fops = {
.poll = port_fops_poll,
.release = port_fops_release,
.fasync = port_fops_fasync,
+ .llseek = no_llseek,
};
/*--
1.7.2.3