Re: [PATCH 2/6] procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> /proc/kcore has no llseek and then falls down to use default_llseek.
> This is racy against read_kcore() that directly manipulates fpos
> but it doesn't hold the bkl there so using it in llseek doesn't
> protect anything.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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