kernfs: sysfs: support custom llseek method for sysfs entries
As of now, seeking in sysfs files is handled by generic_file_llseek(). There are situations where one may want to customize seeking logic: - Many sysfs entries are fixed files while generic_file_llseek() accepts past-the-end positions. Not only being useless by itself, this also means a bug in userspace code will trigger not at lseek(), but at some later point making debugging harder. - generic_file_llseek() relies on f_mapping->host to get the file size which might not be correct for all sysfs entries. See commit 636b21b5 ("PCI: Revoke mappings like devmem") as an example. Implement llseek method to override this behavior at sysfs attribute level. The method is optional, and if it is absent, generic_file_llseek() is called to preserve backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: Valentine Sinitsyn <valesini@yandex-team.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925084013.309399-1-valesini@yandex-team.ruSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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