[PATCH] selftests/fpu: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Oct 25 2020 - 06:20:10 EST


From: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

lib/test_fpu.c:66:0-23: WARNING: test_fpu_fops should be defined with DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE

Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE
for debugfs files.

Semantic patch information:
Rationale: DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file()
imposes some significant overhead as compared to
DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file_unsafe().

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci

Fixes: 4185b3b92792 ("selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest")
CC: Petteri Aimonen <jpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>
---

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: b6f96e75ae121ead54da3f58c545d68184079f90
commit: 4185b3b92792eaec5869266e594338343421ffb0 selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest
:::::: branch date: 2 hours ago
:::::: commit date: 4 months ago

I don't know much about this issue, but I'm passing the warning along.
The original commit of the semantic patch contains some more information:

In order to protect against file removal races, debugfs files created via
debugfs_create_file() now get wrapped by a struct file_operations at their
opening.

If the original struct file_operations are known to be safe against removal
races by themselves already, the proxy creation may be bypassed by creating
the files through debugfs_create_file_unsafe().

In order to help debugfs users who use the common
DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() + debugfs_create_file()
idiom to transition to removal safe struct file_operations, the helper
macro DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() has been introduced.

Thus, the preferred strategy is to use
DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() + debugfs_create_file_unsafe()
now.

test_fpu.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/test_fpu.c
+++ b/lib/test_fpu.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static int test_fpu_get(void *data, u64
return status;
}

-DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(test_fpu_fops, test_fpu_get, NULL, "%lld\n");
+DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(test_fpu_fops, test_fpu_get, NULL, "%lld\n");
static struct dentry *selftest_dir;

static int __init test_fpu_init(void)
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ static int __init test_fpu_init(void)
if (!selftest_dir)
return -ENOMEM;

- debugfs_create_file("test_fpu", 0444, selftest_dir, NULL,
- &test_fpu_fops);
+ debugfs_create_file_unsafe("test_fpu", 0444, selftest_dir, NULL,
+ &test_fpu_fops);

return 0;
}