From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755964Ab0GHLZT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:25:19 -0400 Received: from wine.ocn.ne.jp ([122.1.235.145]:58344 "EHLO smtp.wine.ocn.ne.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752631Ab0GHLZR (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:25:17 -0400 To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] vfs: make no_llseek the default From: Tetsuo Handa References: <1278538820-1392-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1278538820-1392-19-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <1278538820-1392-19-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Message-Id: <201007082025.HDB82385.OOVHQSLtFFMFJO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> X-Mailer: Winbiff [Version 2.51 PL2] X-Accept-Language: ja,en,zh Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:25:12 +0900 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. Arnd Bergmann wrote: > All file operations now have an explicit .llseek > operation pointer, so we can change the default > action for future code. I saw patch for SELinux and IMA, but not for TOMOYO. TOMOYO has static const struct file_operations tomoyo_operations without .llseek operation pointer. TOMOYO does not deal offset pointer. Thus seek operation makes no sense. But returning -ESPIPE for seek operation might break some applications. What should I do for TOMOYO? Regards.