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/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b336cb9..9682d52 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2228,6 +2228,7 @@
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,