Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:58:37PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> >   kmalloc(len + 2, ...);
> 
> No, because nul-terminating the stuff you pass to
> simple_read_from_buffer is pointless cargo-culting. Yeah, read_file_bool
> does it, but that's just bogus.

Urgh, feel yuck to not have it zero terminated, but if you feel strongly
about it I suppose I can make it go away.

> > 	len = strscpy(copy, str, len);
> > 	if (len < 0)
> > 		return len;
> 
> To what end? The only way that could possibly return -EFOO is if the
> nul-terminator in str vanished between the strlen() and here, and in
> that case you have bigger problems.

There are strings in the kernel which we rewrite in most ugly ways,
task_struct::comm comes to mind. Best be paranoid.

> > Copy-pasta from debugfs_*_bool(). This thing seems to export everything
> > and I figured I'd go along with that.
> 
> I thought the convention was not to export anything until the kernel
> itself had a (modular) user.

That's generally how I feel too. But this really isn't my subsystem so I
more or less try to mimmick what I see done there.