Re: [RFC PATCH 07/14] iio: core: add simple centralized mechanism for ioctl() handlers

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 8 May 2020 16:53:41 +0300
Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The aim of this is to reduce the organization violation of ioctl() calls in
> IIO core. Currently, since the chardev is split across files, event ioctl()
> calls need to be called in buffer ioctl() calls.
> 
> The 'industrialio-core.c' file will provide a 'iio_device_ioctl()' which
> will iterate over a list of ioctls registered with the IIO device. These
> can be event ioctl() or buffer ioctl() calls, or something else.
> This is needed, since there is currently one chardev per IIO device and
> that is used for both event handling and reading from the buffer.
> 
> Each ioctl() will have to return a IIO_IOCTL_UNHANDLED code (which is
> positive 1), if the ioctl() did not handle the call in any. This eliminates
> any potential ambiguities; if we were to have used error codes it would
> have been uncertain whether they were actual errors, or whether
> the registered ioctl() doesn't service the command.
> 
> If any ioctl() returns 0, it was considered that it was serviced
> successfully and the loop will exit.
> 
> One assumption for all registered ioctl() handlers is that they are
> statically allocated, so the iio_device_unregister() which just remove all
> of them from the device's ioctl() handler list.
> 
> Also, something that is a bit hard to do [at this point] and may not be
> worth the effort of doing, is to check whether registered ioctl()
> calls/commands overlap. This should be unlikely to happen, and should get
> caught at review time. Though, new ioctl() calls would likely not be added
> too often.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>

We seem to have dropped the locking in here.   What am I missing that
stops us racing a remove with the ioctl?  If there is a reason that
can't race, please add comments there so I don't wonders sometime in
the future.

The check on iio_dev->info means we won't start the ioctl if the
remove has been called, but if we switch immediately after that,
anything can happen before we start calling the ioctls.

J

> ---
>  drivers/iio/iio_core.h          | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/iio/iio.h         |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/iio_core.h b/drivers/iio/iio_core.h
> index a527a66be9e5..34c3e19229d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/iio_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/iio/iio_core.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ struct iio_dev;
>  
>  extern struct device_type iio_device_type;
>  
> +#define IIO_IOCTL_UNHANDLED	1
> +struct iio_ioctl_handler {
> +	struct list_head entry;
> +	long (*ioctl)(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct file *filp,
> +		      unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
> +};
> +
> +long iio_device_ioctl(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct file *filp,
> +		      unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
> +
> +void iio_device_ioctl_handler_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
> +				       struct iio_ioctl_handler *h);
> +void iio_device_ioctl_handler_unregister(struct iio_ioctl_handler *h);
> +
>  int __iio_add_chan_devattr(const char *postfix,
>  			   struct iio_chan_spec const *chan,
>  			   ssize_t (*func)(struct device *dev,
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> index 32e045c7f0c1..5df3af5e7dcb 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> @@ -1534,6 +1534,7 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv)
>  	}
>  	dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list);
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->ioctl_handlers);
>  
>  	return dev;
>  }
> @@ -1587,6 +1588,33 @@ struct iio_dev *devm_iio_device_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_iio_device_alloc);
>  
> +void iio_device_ioctl_handler_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
> +				       struct iio_ioctl_handler *h)
> +{
> +	/* this assumes that all ioctl() handlers are statically allocated */
> +	list_add_tail(&h->entry, &indio_dev->ioctl_handlers);
> +}
> +
> +long iio_device_ioctl(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, struct file *filp,
> +		      unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +{
> +	struct iio_ioctl_handler *h;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!indio_dev->info)
> +		return -ENODEV;

The locking is gone?  
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(h, &indio_dev->ioctl_handlers, entry) {
> +		ret = h->ioctl(indio_dev, filp, cmd, arg);
> +		if (ret == 0)
> +			return 0;
> +		if (ret != IIO_IOCTL_UNHANDLED)
> +			return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	return -EINVAL;
> +}
> +
>  static int iio_check_unique_scan_index(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>  {
>  	int i, j;
> @@ -1722,6 +1750,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__iio_device_register);
>   **/
>  void iio_device_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>  {
> +	struct iio_ioctl_handler *h, *t;
> +
>  	cdev_device_del(indio_dev->chrdev, &indio_dev->dev);
>  	iio_device_free_chrdev_id(&indio_dev->dev);
>  
> @@ -1731,6 +1761,9 @@ void iio_device_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>  
>  	iio_disable_all_buffers(indio_dev);
>  
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(h, t, &indio_dev->ioctl_handlers, entry)
> +		list_del(&h->entry);
> +
>  	indio_dev->info = NULL;
>  
>  	iio_device_wakeup_eventset(indio_dev);
> diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> index 52992be44e9e..b6ca8d85629e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> @@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ struct iio_buffer_setup_ops {
>   * @currentmode:	[DRIVER] current operating mode
>   * @dev:		[DRIVER] device structure, should be assigned a parent
>   *			and owner
> + * @ioctl_handlers:	[INTERN] list of registered ioctl handlers
>   * @event_interface:	[INTERN] event chrdevs associated with interrupt lines
>   * @buffer:		[DRIVER] any buffer present
>   * @buffer_list:	[INTERN] list of all buffers currently attached
> @@ -529,6 +530,7 @@ struct iio_dev {
>  	int				modes;
>  	int				currentmode;
>  	struct device			dev;
> +	struct list_head		ioctl_handlers;
>  
>  	struct iio_event_interface	*event_interface;
>