Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Apr 22 2020 - 02:09:30 EST
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:46:26AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Better allocate count + 1 bytes here, that way a lot of insanity in the
> > instances can be simply converted to snprintf(). Yes, I know it'll bring
> > the Church Of Avoiding The Abomination Of Sprintf out of the woodwork,
> > but...
>
> FWIW, consider e.g. net/sunrpc/sysctl.c:
>
> Nevermind that the read side should be simply
> int err = proc_douintvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> /* Display the RPC tasks on writing to rpc_debug */
> if (!err && strcmp(table->procname, "rpc_debug") == 0)
> rpc_show_tasks(&init_net);
> return err;
> the write side would become
> len = snprintf(buffer, *lenp + 1, "0x%04x\n",
> *(unsigned int *)table->data);
> if (len > *lenp)
> len = *lenp;
> *lenp -= len;
> *ppos += len;
> return 0;
> and I really wonder if lifting the trailing boilerplate into the caller would've
> been better. Note that e.g. gems like
> if (!first)
> err = proc_put_char(&buffer, &left, '\t');
> if (err)
> break;
> err = proc_put_long(&buffer, &left, lval, neg);
> if (err)
> break;
> are due to lack of snprintf-to-user; now, lose the "to user" part and we suddenly
> can be rid of that stuff...
That sounds pretty sensible, but can we do that as an extra step?
That is in merge window N just move to passing kernel pointers, check
for fall out. In merge window N + 1 start allocatin the extra byte and
switch at least the common helpers for snprintf?