linux/fs/char_dev.c

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llseek: automatically add .llseek fop All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a .llseek pointer. The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek. New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code relies on calling seek on the device file. The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle. Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window. Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic patch that does all this. ===== begin semantic patch ===== // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations, // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default. // // The rules are // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open // - use seq_lseek for sequential files // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos, // but we still want to allow users to call lseek // @ open1 exists @ identifier nested_open; @@ nested_open(...) { <+... nonseekable_open(...) ...+> } @ open exists@ identifier open_f; identifier i, f; identifier open1.nested_open; @@ int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) { <+... ( nonseekable_open(...) | nested_open(...) ) ...+> } @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ write @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ write_no_fpos @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ fops0 @ identifier fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... }; @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier llseek_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .llseek = llseek_f, ... }; @ has_read depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... }; @ has_write depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... }; @ has_open depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... }; // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open //////////////////////////////////////////// @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = nso, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */ }; @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */ }; // use seq_lseek for sequential files ///////////////////////////////////// @ seq depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier sr ~= "seq_read"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = sr, ... +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */ }; // use default_llseek if there is a readdir /////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier readdir_e; @@ // any other fop is used that changes pos struct file_operations fops = { ... .readdir = readdir_e, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */ }; // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read.read_f; @@ // read fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */ }; @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */ }; // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */ }; ===== End semantic patch ===== Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-08-15 18:52:59 +02:00
chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've taken things one step further to make the helper function more useful and clean up calling code. There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-cycle of both. In the naive approach, the reference counting is broken and the struct device can free everything before the chardev code is entirely released. Many developers have solved this problem by linking the internal kobjs in this fashion: cdev.kobj.parent = &parent_dev.kobj; The cdev code explicitly gets and puts a reference to it's kobj parent. So this seems like it was intended to be used this way. Dmitrty Torokhov first put this in place in 2012 with this commit: 2f0157f char_dev: pin parent kobject and the first instance of the fix was then done in the input subsystem in the following commit: 4a215aa Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes Subsequently over the years, however, this issue seems to have tripped up multiple developers independently. For example, see these commits: 0d5b7da iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device (by Lars-Peter Clausen in 2013) ba0ef85 tpm: Fix initialization of the cdev (by Jason Gunthorpe in 2015) 5b28dde [media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits after driver unbind (by Shauh Khan in 2016) This technique is similarly done in at least 15 places within the kernel and probably should have been done so in another, at least, 5 places. The kobj line also looks very suspect in that one would not expect drivers to have to mess with kobject internals in this way. Even highly experienced kernel developers can be surprised by this code, as seen in [2]. To help alleviate this situation, and hopefully prevent future wasted effort on this problem, this patch introduces a helper function to register a char device along with its parent struct device. This creates a more regular API for tying a char device to its parent without the developer having to set members in the underlying kobject. This patch introduce cdev_device_add and cdev_device_del which replaces a common pattern including setting the kobj parent, calling cdev_add and then calling device_add. It also introduces cdev_set_parent for the few cases that set the kobject parent without using device_add. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/700 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/370 Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-17 12:48:08 -06:00
chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've taken things one step further to make the helper function more useful and clean up calling code. There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-cycle of both. In the naive approach, the reference counting is broken and the struct device can free everything before the chardev code is entirely released. Many developers have solved this problem by linking the internal kobjs in this fashion: cdev.kobj.parent = &parent_dev.kobj; The cdev code explicitly gets and puts a reference to it's kobj parent. So this seems like it was intended to be used this way. Dmitrty Torokhov first put this in place in 2012 with this commit: 2f0157f char_dev: pin parent kobject and the first instance of the fix was then done in the input subsystem in the following commit: 4a215aa Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes Subsequently over the years, however, this issue seems to have tripped up multiple developers independently. For example, see these commits: 0d5b7da iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device (by Lars-Peter Clausen in 2013) ba0ef85 tpm: Fix initialization of the cdev (by Jason Gunthorpe in 2015) 5b28dde [media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits after driver unbind (by Shauh Khan in 2016) This technique is similarly done in at least 15 places within the kernel and probably should have been done so in another, at least, 5 places. The kobj line also looks very suspect in that one would not expect drivers to have to mess with kobject internals in this way. Even highly experienced kernel developers can be surprised by this code, as seen in [2]. To help alleviate this situation, and hopefully prevent future wasted effort on this problem, this patch introduces a helper function to register a char device along with its parent struct device. This creates a more regular API for tying a char device to its parent without the developer having to set members in the underlying kobject. This patch introduce cdev_device_add and cdev_device_del which replaces a common pattern including setting the kobj parent, calling cdev_add and then calling device_add. It also introduces cdev_set_parent for the few cases that set the kobject parent without using device_add. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/700 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/370 Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-17 12:48:08 -06:00
chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device Credit for this patch goes is shared with Dan Williams [1]. I've taken things one step further to make the helper function more useful and clean up calling code. There's a common pattern in the kernel whereby a struct cdev is placed in a structure along side a struct device which manages the life-cycle of both. In the naive approach, the reference counting is broken and the struct device can free everything before the chardev code is entirely released. Many developers have solved this problem by linking the internal kobjs in this fashion: cdev.kobj.parent = &parent_dev.kobj; The cdev code explicitly gets and puts a reference to it's kobj parent. So this seems like it was intended to be used this way. Dmitrty Torokhov first put this in place in 2012 with this commit: 2f0157f char_dev: pin parent kobject and the first instance of the fix was then done in the input subsystem in the following commit: 4a215aa Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes Subsequently over the years, however, this issue seems to have tripped up multiple developers independently. For example, see these commits: 0d5b7da iio: Prevent race between IIO chardev opening and IIO device (by Lars-Peter Clausen in 2013) ba0ef85 tpm: Fix initialization of the cdev (by Jason Gunthorpe in 2015) 5b28dde [media] media: fix use-after-free in cdev_put() when app exits after driver unbind (by Shauh Khan in 2016) This technique is similarly done in at least 15 places within the kernel and probably should have been done so in another, at least, 5 places. The kobj line also looks very suspect in that one would not expect drivers to have to mess with kobject internals in this way. Even highly experienced kernel developers can be surprised by this code, as seen in [2]. To help alleviate this situation, and hopefully prevent future wasted effort on this problem, this patch introduces a helper function to register a char device along with its parent struct device. This creates a more regular API for tying a char device to its parent without the developer having to set members in the underlying kobject. This patch introduce cdev_device_add and cdev_device_del which replaces a common pattern including setting the kobj parent, calling cdev_add and then calling device_add. It also introduces cdev_set_parent for the few cases that set the kobject parent without using device_add. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/700 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/370 Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-17 12:48:08 -06:00