Commit 9ddf61bd authored Dec 05, 2005 by Marcelo Tosatti Committed by Russell King Dec 05, 2005

[ARM SMP] mpcore_wdt bogus fpos check



drivers/char/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c write function contains a check for
(ppos != &file->f_pos). Such check used to make sense when a pointer to
file->f_pos was handed by vfs_write(), not a copy of it as it stands
now.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

parent db20da32

drivers/char/watchdog/mpcore_wdt.c

+0 −4

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		@@ -180,10 +180,6 @@ static ssize_t mpcore_wdt_write(struct file file, const char data, size_t len,
		{
		struct mpcore_wdt *wdt = file->private_data;

		/* Can't seek (pwrite) on this device */
		if (ppos != &file->f_pos)
		return -ESPIPE;

		/*
		* Refresh the timer.
		*/