From 32eca22180804f71b06b63fd29b72f58be8b3c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:22:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] misc: always assign miscdevice to file->private_data in
open()
As of now, a miscdevice driver has to provide an implementation of
the open() file operation if it wants to have misc_open() assign a
pointer to struct miscdevice to file->private_data for other file
operations to use (given the user calls open()).
This leads to situations where a miscdevice driver that doesn't need
internal operations during open() has to implement open() that only
returns immediately, in order to use the data in private_data in other
fops.
This provides consistent behaviour for miscdevice developers and will
always provide the pointer in private_data. A driver's open() fop would,
of course, just overwrite it, when using private_data itself.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/char/misc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index ffa97d261cf33..205ad4c584708 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
err = 0;
replace_fops(file, new_fops);
+ file->private_data = c;
if (file->f_op->open) {
- file->private_data = c;
err = file->f_op->open(inode,file);
}
fail:
--
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