Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: fix stream_open.cocci warnings

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 1:50 PM Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c:2498:7-23: WARNING:
> gpio_fileops: .read() has stream semantic;
> safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci
>
> Signed-off-by: Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> index f5aa5f93342a..d03c8e012c8c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> @@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ static int gpio_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>         get_device(&gdev->dev);
>         file->private_data = cdev;
>
> -       ret = nonseekable_open(inode, file);
> +       ret = stream_open(inode, file);
>         if (ret)
>                 goto out_unregister_notifier;
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Cc'ing Kent.

This patch doesn't seem to target current master or rc1.

It also can't be right - we specifically mark all filesystem objects
exposed by the GPIO character device as non-seekable.

Bart