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lguest: explicitly set miscdevice's private_data NULL

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There is a proposed change to the miscdevice's behaviour on open(). Currently
file->private_data stays NULL, but only because we don't have an open-entry in
struct file_operations.

This may change so that private_data, more consistently, is always set to
struct miscdevice, not only *if* the driver has it's own open() routine and
fops-entry, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/4/939 and commit
94e4fe2cab

In short: If we rely on file->private_data being NULL, we should ensure
it is NULL ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Martin Kepplinger 2015-03-24 11:51:20 +10:30 committed by Rusty Russell
parent 88ad1a147e
commit 67c50bf292
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drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
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@ -339,6 +339,13 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *in,
}
}
static int open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
file->private_data = NULL;
return 0;
}
/*L:060
* The final piece of interface code is the close() routine. It reverses
* everything done in initialize(). This is usually called because the
@ -409,6 +416,7 @@ static int close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
*/
static const struct file_operations lguest_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.open = open,
.release = close,
.write = write,
.read = read,