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2014-12-18param: do not set store func without write permKees Cook
When a module_param is defined without DAC write permissions, it can still be changed at runtime and updated. Drivers using a 0444 permission may be surprised that these values can still be changed. For drivers that want to allow updates, any S_IW* flag will set the "store" function as before. Drivers without S_IW* flags will have the "store" function unset, unforcing a read-only value. Drivers that wish neither "store" nor "get" can continue to use "0" for perms to stay out of sysfs entirely. Old behavior: # cd /sys/module/snd/parameters # ls -l total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 11 13:55 cards_limit -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 11 13:55 major -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 11 13:55 slots # cat major 116 # echo -1 > major -bash: major: Permission denied # chmod u+w major # echo -1 > major # cat major -1 New behavior: ... # chmod u+w major # echo -1 > major -bash: echo: write error: Input/output error Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-11-11params: cleanup sysfs allocationRusty Russell
commit 63662139e519ce06090b2759cf4a1d291b9cc0e2 attempted to patch a leak (which would only happen on OOM, ie. never), but it didn't quite work. This rewrites the code to be as simple as possible. add_sysfs_param() adds a parameter. If it fails, it's the caller's responsibility to clean up the parameters which already exist. The kzalloc-then-always-krealloc pattern is perhaps overly simplistic, but this code has clearly confused people. It worked on me... Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-10-14kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>Geert Uytterhoeven
Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of __start___param[] and __stop___param in <linux/moduleparam.h>. This requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c const. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-27param: check for tainting before calling set op.Rusty Russell
This means every set op doesn't need to call it, and it can move into params.c. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module paramsJani Nikula
Add flags field to struct kernel_params, and add the first flag: unsafe parameter. Modifying a kernel parameter with the unsafe flag set, either via the kernel command line or sysfs, will issue a warning and taint the kernel. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27module: rename KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG to avoid confusionJani Nikula
Make it clear this is about kernel_param_ops, not kernel_param (which will soon have a flags field of its own). No functional changes. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-07-17Add module param type 'ullong'Hannes Reinecke
Some driver might want to pass in an 64-bit value, so introduce a module param type 'ullong'. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-04-28param: hand arguments after -- straight to initRusty Russell
The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module). This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments are for init. For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog" meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided. eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"' Gives: argv[0] = '/debug-init' argv[1] = 'test' argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true' envp[0] = 'HOME=/' envp[1] = 'TERM=linux' envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-12-04params: improve standard definitionsFelipe Contreras
We are repeating the functionality of kstrtol in param_set_long, and the same for kstrtoint. We can get rid of the extra code by using the right functions. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-09-28kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer typesJean Delvare
Commit 6072ddc8520b ("kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()") broke the handling of signed integer types, fix it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()Jingoo Han
The usage of strict_strto*() is not preferred, because strict_strto*() is obsolete. Thus, kstrto*() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-03module: Fix mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too earlyLi Zhong
DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE helps to find the issue attached below. After some investigation, it seems the reason is: The mod->mkobj.kobj(ffffffffa01600d0 below) is freed together with mod itself in free_module(). However, its children still hold references to it, as the delay caused by DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE. So when the child(holders below) tries to decrease the reference count to its parent in kobject_del(), BUG happens as it tries to access already freed memory. This patch tries to fix it by waiting for the mod->mkobj.kobj to be really released in the module removing process (and some error code paths). [ 1844.175287] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed) [ 1844.178991] kobject: 'notes' (ffff8800370b2a00): kobject_release, parent ffffffffa01600d0 (delayed) [ 1845.180118] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): kobject_cleanup, parent ffffffffa01600d0 [ 1845.182130] kobject: 'holders' (ffff88007c1f1600): auto cleanup kobject_del [ 1845.184120] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa01601d0 [ 1845.185026] IP: [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] PGD 1a13067 PUD 1a14063 PMD 7bd30067 PTE 0 [ 1845.185026] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT [ 1845.185026] Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c [last unloaded: kprobe_example] [ 1845.185026] CPU: 0 PID: 18 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G O 3.11.0-rc6-next-20130819+ #1 [ 1845.185026] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007 [ 1845.185026] Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup [ 1845.185026] task: ffff88007ca51f00 ti: ffff88007ca5c000 task.ti: ffff88007ca5c000 [ 1845.185026] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812cda81>] [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] RSP: 0018:ffff88007ca5dd08 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 1845.185026] RAX: 0000000000002000 RBX: ffffffffa01600d0 RCX: ffffffff8177d638 [ 1845.185026] RDX: ffff88007ca5dc18 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffa01600d0 [ 1845.185026] RBP: ffff88007ca5dd18 R08: ffffffff824e9810 R09: ffffffffffffffff [ 1845.185026] R10: ffff8800ffffffff R11: dead4ead00000001 R12: ffffffff81a95040 [ 1845.185026] R13: ffff88007b27a960 R14: ffff88007c1f1600 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff81a23000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0 CR3: 0000000037207000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 1845.185026] Stack: [ 1845.185026] ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007c1f1600 ffff88007ca5dd38 ffffffff812cdb7e [ 1845.185026] 0000000000000000 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ca5dd68 ffffffff812cdbfe [ 1845.185026] ffff88007c974800 ffff88007c1f1640 ffff88007ff61a00 0000000000000000 [ 1845.185026] Call Trace: [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff812cdb7e>] kobject_del+0x2e/0x40 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff812cdbfe>] kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x6e/0x1d0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff81063a45>] process_one_work+0x1e5/0x670 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810639e3>] ? process_one_work+0x183/0x670 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810642b3>] worker_thread+0x113/0x370 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff810641a0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x290/0x290 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bfba>] kthread+0xda/0xe0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff814ff0f0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8150751a>] ret_from_fork+0x7a/0xb0 [ 1845.185026] [<ffffffff8106bee0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x130/0x130 [ 1845.185026] Code: 81 48 c7 c7 28 95 ad 81 31 c0 e8 9b da 01 00 e9 4f ff ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 1d <f6> 87 00 01 00 00 01 74 1e 48 8d 7b 38 83 6b 38 01 0f 94 c0 84 [ 1845.185026] RIP [<ffffffff812cda81>] kobject_put+0x11/0x60 [ 1845.185026] RSP <ffff88007ca5dd08> [ 1845.185026] CR2: ffffffffa01601d0 [ 1845.185026] ---[ end trace 49a70afd109f5653 ]--- Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-08-20kernel/params.c: use scnprintf() instead of sprintf()Chen Gang
For some strings (e.g. version string), they are permitted to be larger than PAGE_SIZE (although meaningless), so recommend to use scnprintf() instead of sprintf(). Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-08-20module: Add flag to allow mod params to have no argumentsSteven Rostedt
Currently the params.c code allows only two "set" functions to have no arguments. If a parameter does not have an argument, then it looks at the set function and tests if it is either param_set_bool() or param_set_bint(). If it is not one of these functions, then it fails the loading of the module. But there may be module parameters that have different set functions and still allow no arguments. But unless each of these cases adds their function to the if statement, it wont be allowed to have no arguments. This method gets rather messing and does not scale. Instead, introduce a flags field to the kernel_param_ops, where if the flag KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG is set, the parameter will not fail if it does not contain an argument. It will be expected that the corresponding set function can handle a NULL pointer as "val". Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-08-20module: fix sprintf format specifier in param_get_byte()Christoph Jaeger
In param_get_byte(), to which the macro STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(byte, ...) expands, "%c" is used to print an unsigned char. So it gets printed as a character what is not intended here. Use "%hhu" instead. [Rusty: note drivers which would be effected: drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/main.c drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c:68 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c drivers/usb/gadget/g_ffs.c ] Acked-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> (for ntb) Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> (for g_ffs.c) Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <christophjaeger@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-07-02There is no /sys/parametersJean Delvare
There is no such path as /sys/parameters, module parameters live in /sys/module/*/parameters. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-18params: Fix potential memory leak in add_sysfs_param()David Woodhouse
On allocation failure, it would fail to free the old attrs array which was no longer referenced by anything (since it would free the old module_param_attrs struct on the way out). Comment the suspicious-looking krealloc() usage to explain why it *isn't* actually buggy, despite looking like a classic realloc() usage bug. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2012-05-04params: replace printk(KERN_<LVL>...) with pr_<lvl>(...)Jim Cromie
I left 1 printk which uses __FILE__, __LINE__ explicitly, which should not be subject to generic preferences expressed via pr_fmt(). + tweaks suggested by Joe Perches: - add doing to irq-enabled warning, like others. It wont happen often.. - change sysfs failure crit, not just err, make it 1 line in logs. - coalese 2 format fragments into 1 >80 char line cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-04params.c: fix Smack complaint about parse_argsJim Cromie
In commit 9fb48c744: "params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signature", the if-guard added to the pr_debug was overzealous; no callers pass NULL, and existing code above and below the guard assumes as much. Change the if-guard to match, and silence the Smack complaint. CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-30params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signatureJim Cromie
Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked from parse_args(). The arg is passed as: "Booting kernel" from start_kernel(), initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(), mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one() parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to "doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above. parse_args() passes it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the unknown option handler callbacks. The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules, since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a "$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is called, the module name is not otherwise available. Minor tweaks: Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt identify the param being handled, add it. Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall, and number of registered initcalls at that level. This adds 7 lines to dmesg output, like: initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the pr_info() added above. This array is passed into parse_args() by do_initcall_level(). CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-26params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parametersPawel Moll
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we use this for early params as well, in future. Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order to add additional symbols between levels that are later used by the init code to split the calls into blocks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26module_param: remove support for bool parameters which are really int.Rusty Russell
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. This eliminates that code (though leaves the flags field in the struct, for impending use). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-02-28includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.hPaul Gortmaker
Different tree maintainers picked up independently generated trivial compile fixes based on linux-next testing, resulting in some cases where a file would have got more than one addition of module.h once everything was all merged together. Delete any duplicates so includecheck isn't complaining about anything related to module.h/export.h changes. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-14module: make module param bint handle nul valueDave Young
Allow bint param accept nul values, just do same as bool param. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-13module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.Rusty Russell
For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or an unsigned int). That's going away. A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give 'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1"). Use a new 'bint' parser for them. (ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because it's also exposed via sysctl.) Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (For the sound part) Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> (For the hwmon driver) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-13kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debugJim Cromie
Use more flexible pr_debug. This allows: echo "module params +p" > /dbg/dynamic_debug/control to turn on debug messages when needed. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-10-31kernel: params.c needs module.h not moduleparam.hPaul Gortmaker
Through various other implicit include paths, some files were getting the full module.h file, and hence living the illusion that they really only needed moduleparam.h -- but the reality is that once you remove the module.h presence, these show up: kernel/params.c:583: warning: ‘struct module_kobject’ declared inside parameter list Such files really require module.h so simply make it so. As the file module.h grabs moduleparam.h on the fly, all will be well. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-26params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equalMichal Schmidt
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar". Make sure it works the other way around too. Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup params as well. The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that this is the intended behaviour. With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545 Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
2011-07-24module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent filesKay Sievers
Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules. This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for built-in ones. To allow access to the built-in modules we need to re-trigger all module load events that happened before any userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers. This adds the currently missing /sys/module/<name>/uevent files to all module entries. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split & trivial fix)
2011-07-24module: change attr callbacks to take struct module_kobjectKay Sievers
This simplifies the next patch, where we have an attribute on a builtin module (ie. module == NULL). Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split into 2)
2011-07-24param: fix return value handling in param_set_*Satoru Moriya
In STANDARD_PARAM_DEF, param_set_* handles the case in which strtolfn returns -EINVAL but it may return -ERANGE. If it returns -ERANGE, param_set_* may set uninitialized value to the paramerter. We should handle both cases. The one of the cases in which strtolfn() returns -ERANGE is following: *Type of module parameter is long *Set the parameter more than LONG_MAX Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-19params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputsJonathan Cameron
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-19module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versionsDmitry Torokhov
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary. This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in modules. Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and put those pointers in the special section. Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-01-24module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfsDmitry Torokhov
Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if built-in, are completely invisible from userspace. This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-11param: locking for kernel parametersRusty Russell
There may be cases (most obviously, sysfs-writable charp parameters) where a module needs to prevent sysfs access to parameters. Rather than express this in terms of a big lock, the functions are expressed in terms of what they protect against. This is clearer, esp. if the implementation changes to a module-level or even param-level lock. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
2010-08-11param: make param sections const.Rusty Russell
Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should always have been const. Minor flow-through various functions. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
2010-08-11param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters)Rusty Russell
Instead of using a "I kmalloced this" flag, we keep track of the kmalloced strings and use that list to check if we need to kfree (in practice, the list is very short). This means that kparams can be const again, and plugs a leak. This is important for drivers/usb/gadget/nokia.c which gets modprobe/rmmod'ed frequently on the N9000. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
2010-08-11param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.Rusty Russell
This allows us to generalize the KPARAM_KMALLOCED flag, by calling a function on every parameter when a module is unloaded. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
2010-08-11param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directlyRusty Russell
This is more kernel-ish, saves some space, and also allows us to expand the ops without breaking all the callers who are happy for the new members to be NULL. The few places which defined their own param types are changed to the new scheme (more which crept in recently fixed in following patches). Since we're touching them anyway, we change get() and set() to take a const struct kernel_param (which they really are). This causes some harmless warnings until we fix them (in following patches). To reduce churn, module_param_call creates the ops struct so the callers don't have to change (and casts the functions to reduce warnings). The modern version which takes an ops struct is called module_param_cb. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it> Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2010-08-11param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions.Rusty Russell
This is modern style, and good to do before we start changing things. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
2010-08-11params: don't hand NULL values to param.set callbacks.Rusty Russell
An audit by Dongdong Deng revealed that most driver-author-written param calls don't handle val == NULL (which happens when parameters are specified with no =, eg "foo" instead of "foo=1"). The only real case to use this is boolean, so handle it specially for that case and remove a source of bugs for everyone else. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
2010-03-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits) doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog doc: fix console doc typo doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm" tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code drm/kms: fix spelling in error message doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/ Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments ... Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-08Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina
Conflicts: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-07sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on dynamic attributesEric W. Biederman
These are the non-static sysfs attributes that exist on my test machine. Fix them to use sysfs_attr_init or sysfs_bin_attr_init as appropriate. It simply requires making a sysfs attribute present to see this. So this is a little bit tedious but otherwise not too bad. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-06includecheck fix for kernel/params.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: kernel/params.c: linux/string.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-05Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macrosEdward Z. Yang
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@ksplice.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-15tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib functionAndré Goddard Rosa
Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading spaces from strings all over the tree. It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide: text data bss dec hex filename 64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE) 64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER) Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words, "a char equals zero is never a space". Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below, and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files: drivers/leds/led-class.c drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c drivers/video/output.c @@ expression str; @@ ( // ignore skip_spaces cases while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) } | - *str && isspace(*str) ) Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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