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fs: allocate structure unconditionally in seq_open()
Since patch described below, from v2.6.15-rc1, seq_open() could use a struct seq_file already allocated by the caller if the pointer to the structure is stored in file->private_data before calling the function. Commit 1abe77b Author: Al Viro <[email protected]> Date: Mon Nov 7 17:15:34 2005 -0500 [PATCH] allow callers of seq_open do allocation themselves Allow caller of seq_open() to kmalloc() seq_file + whatever else they want and set ->private_data to it. seq_open() will then abstain from doing allocation itself. As there's no more use for such feature, as it could be easily replaced by calls to seq_open_private() (see commit 3969903 ("[FS] seq_file: Introduce the seq_open_private()")) and seq_release_private() (see v2.6.0-test3), support for this uncommon feature can be removed from seq_open(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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