vfs: introduce noop_llseek()

This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case
when userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is
actually not able to perform the seek.  In this case you use noop_llseek()
instead of falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 113386d..9c04852 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek);
 
+/**
+ * noop_llseek - No Operation Performed llseek implementation
+ * @file:      file structure to seek on
+ * @offset:    file offset to seek to
+ * @origin:    type of seek
+ *
+ * This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when
+ * userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not
+ * able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of
+ * falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.
+ */
+loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+       return file->f_pos;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_llseek);
+
 loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
 {
        return -ESPIPE;

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b336cb9..9682d52 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2228,6 +2228,7 @@ extern long do_splice_direct(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct file *out,
 
 extern void
 file_ra_state_init(struct file_ra_state *ra, struct address_space *mapping);
+extern loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek_unlocked(struct file *file, loff_t offset,