Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] fs: clear or set FMODE_LSEEK based on llseek function

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jun 25 2022 - 09:29:22 EST


On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 06:07:45AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > This helps unify a longstanding wart where FMODE_LSEEK hasn't been
> > uniformly unset when it should be.
>
> I think we could just remove FMODE_LSEEK after the previous patch
> as we can just check for the presence of a ->llseek method instead.

I wouldn't bet on that - as it is, an ->open() instance can decide
in some cases to clear FMODE_LSEEK, despite having file_operations
with non-NULL ->llseek.