mei: don't update offset in write

commit a103af1b64d74853a5e08ca6c86aeb0e5c6ca4f1 upstream.

MEI enables writes of complete messages only
while read can be performed in parts, hence
write should not update the file offset to
not break interleaving partial reads with writes.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 22efc039f3022237d1bc65b625cabb6ddb9fa3b1..8d1d40dbf7448fb51f2c8b70e5a88e8a404583f8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ static ssize_t mei_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
                goto out;
        }
 
-       *offset = 0;
        cb = mei_cl_alloc_cb(cl, length, MEI_FOP_WRITE, file);
        if (!cb) {
                rets = -ENOMEM;