new helper: fixed_size_llseek()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index f646c8b..782dfc3 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -145,6 +145,26 @@ loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek);
 
 /**
+ * fixed_size_llseek - llseek implementation for fixed-sized devices
+ * @file:      file structure to seek on
+ * @offset:    file offset to seek to
+ * @whence:    type of seek
+ * @size:      size of the file
+ *
+ */
+loff_t fixed_size_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence, loff_t size)
+{
+       switch (whence) {
+       case SEEK_SET: case SEEK_CUR: case SEEK_END:
+               return generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence,
+                                               size, size);
+       default:
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixed_size_llseek);
+
+/**
  * noop_llseek - No Operation Performed llseek implementation
  * @file:      file structure to seek on
  * @offset:    file offset to seek to

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 1db01c1..803b7fa 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2428,6 +2428,8 @@ extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek_size(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
                int whence, loff_t maxsize, loff_t eof);
+extern loff_t fixed_size_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
+               int whence, loff_t size);
 extern int generic_file_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp);
 extern int nonseekable_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp);