From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] ima: use generic_file_llseek for securityfs
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:00:17 +0200
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On Thursday 08 July 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:40 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The default for llseek will change to no_llseek,
> > so securityfs users need to add explicit .llseek
> > assignments. Since we're dealing with regular
> > files from a VFS perspective, use generic_file_llseek.
> 
> As both the 'violations' and 'runtime_measurement_counts' are single
> values and 'policy' doesn't support read, this patch doesn't hurt, but
> adding .llseek is probably unnecessary.

Ok, thanks for the confirmation.

Are you applying the patch in your tree, or should I keep it in my
series?

Note that while it may not be necessary to add these specific .llseek
operations, the reason I'm doing it is because I want to provably
have a .llseek operation in every file_operation in the kernel before
the default gets changed.

	Arnd
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