Re: [PATCH] seq_file: fix passing wrong private data

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:26:38AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() is supposed to be used to define a series
> of functions and variables to register proc file easily. And the users
> can use proc_create_data() to pass their own private data and get it
> via seq->private in the callback. Unfortunately, the proc file system
> use PDE_DATA() to get private data instead of inode->i_private. So fix
> it. Fortunately, there only one user of it which does not pass any
> private data, so this bug does not break any in-tree codes.
> 
> Fixes: 97a32539b956 ("proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops"")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/seq_file.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
> index 103776e18555..72dbb44a4573 100644
> --- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
> +++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static const struct file_operations __name ## _fops = {			\
>  #define DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(__name)				\
>  static int __name ## _open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)	\
>  {									\
> -	return single_open(file, __name ## _show, inode->i_private);	\
> +	return single_open(file, __name ## _show, PDE_DATA(inode));	\
>  }									\
>  									\
>  static const struct proc_ops __name ## _proc_ops = {			\

Hm, after your change DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() and
DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macros do exactly the same things, right?:

#define DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(__name)					\
static int __name ## _open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)	\
{									\
	return single_open(file, __name ## _show, inode->i_private);	\
}									\
									\
static const struct file_operations __name ## _fops = {			\
	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,					\
	.open		= __name ## _open,				\
	.read		= seq_read,					\
	.llseek		= seq_lseek,					\
	.release	= single_release,				\
}

#define DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(__name)				\
static int __name ## _open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)	\
{									\
	return single_open(file, __name ## _show, inode->i_private);	\
}									\

Can't you just replace the single instance where
DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE with DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() and remove
DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE completely?

Christian