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The misc subsystem (which is used for /dev/fuse) initializes private_data to point to the misc device when a driver has registered a custom open file operation, and initializes it to NULL when a custom open file operation has *not* been provided. This subtle quirk is confusing, to the point where kernel code registers *empty* file open operations to have private_data point to the misc device structure. And it leads to bugs, where the addition or removal of a custom open file operation surprisingly changes the initial contents of a file's private_data structure. So to simplify things in the misc subsystem, a patch [1] has been proposed to *always* set the private_data to point to the misc device, instead of only doing this when a custom open file operation has been registered. But before this patch can be applied we need to modify drivers that make the assumption that a misc device file's private_data is initialized to NULL because they didn't register a custom open file operation, so they don't rely on this assumption anymore. FUSE uses private_data to store the fuse_conn and errors out if this is not initialized to NULL at mount time. Hence, we now set a file's private_data to NULL explicitly, to be independent of whatever value the misc subsystem initializes it to by default. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/4/939 Reported-by: Giedrius Statkevicius <giedriuswork@gmail.com> Reported-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Van Braeckel <tomvanbraeckel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> |
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| dir.c | ||
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| fuse_i.h | ||
| inode.c | ||