From: Alexey Dobriyan All manipulations with struct seq_file::version are done under struct seq_file::lock except one introduced in commit d6b7a781c51c91dd054e5c437885205592faac21 aka "[PATCH] Speed up /proc/pid/maps" Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/seq_file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/seq_file.c~mutex_unlock-later-in-seq_lseek fs/seq_file.c --- a/fs/seq_file.c~mutex_unlock-later-in-seq_lseek +++ a/fs/seq_file.c @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ loff_t seq_lseek(struct file *file, loff } } } - mutex_unlock(&m->lock); file->f_version = m->version; + mutex_unlock(&m->lock); return retval; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_lseek); _