Merge tag 'for-3.12' of git://git.linaro.org/people/sumitsemwal/linux-dma-buf

Pull dma-buf updates from Sumit Semwal:
 "Yet another small one - dma-buf framework now supports size discovery
  of the buffer via llseek"

* tag 'for-3.12' of git://git.linaro.org/people/sumitsemwal/linux-dma-buf:
  dma-buf: Expose buffer size to userspace (v2)
  dma-buf: Check return value of anon_inode_getfile

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
index e31a2a9d2b0..505e71172ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
@@ -407,6 +407,18 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases:
    interesting ways depending upong the exporter (if userspace starts depending
    upon this implicit synchronization).
 
+Other Interfaces Exposed to Userspace on the dma-buf FD
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+- Since kernel 3.12 the dma-buf FD supports the llseek system call, but only
+  with offset=0 and whence=SEEK_END|SEEK_SET. SEEK_SET is supported to allow
+  the usual size discover pattern size = SEEK_END(0); SEEK_SET(0). Every other
+  llseek operation will report -EINVAL.
+
+  If llseek on dma-buf FDs isn't support the kernel will report -ESPIPE for all
+  cases. Userspace can use this to detect support for discovering the dma-buf
+  size using llseek.
+
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