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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/seq_file.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index 38ef913767ff..7c40570b71dc 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -28,13 +28,17 @@ */ int seq_open(struct file *file, struct seq_operations *op) { - struct seq_file *p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!p) - return -ENOMEM; + struct seq_file *p = file->private_data; + + if (!p) { + p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return -ENOMEM; + file->private_data = p; + } memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); sema_init(&p->sem, 1); p->op = op; - file->private_data = p; /* * Wrappers around seq_open(e.g. swaps_open) need to be |