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/proc/kcore: fix seeking

Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore. This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.

The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.

A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Dave Anderson and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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fs/proc/kcore.c
··· 558 558 static const struct file_operations proc_kcore_operations = { 559 559 .read = read_kcore, 560 560 .open = open_kcore, 561 - .llseek = generic_file_llseek, 561 + .llseek = default_llseek, 562 562 }; 563 563 564 564 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG