[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "macvtap: update file current position" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    macvtap: update file current position

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 9e33dd0f0a046e4693cd46f71c70f991ecdcfe7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 14:16:50 +0800
Subject: macvtap: update file current position

[ Upstream commit e6ebc7f16ca1434a334647aa56399c546be4e64b ]

Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index a4df37f..c8c9bcc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -911,6 +911,8 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,

 	ret = macvtap_do_read(q, iocb, iv, len, file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
 	ret = min_t(ssize_t, ret, len); /* XXX copied from tun.c. Why? */
+	if (ret > 0)
+		iocb->ki_pos = ret;
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
--
1.8.3.2