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From: Arnd Bergmann on 30 Mar 2010 06:40
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> /proc/vmcore has no llseek and then falls down to use default_llseek.
> This is racy against read_vmcore() that directly manipulates fpos
> but it doesn't hold the bkl there so using it in llseek doesn't
> protect anything.
>
> Let's use generic_file_llseek() instead.
>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de>
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