Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] sysctl: API extension for handling sysctl

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 12:23:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:19 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Why not pass the iocb in ->read and ->write?  We're still regretting not
> > doing that with file_operations.
> 
> No, all the actual "io" is done by the caller.
> 
> There is no way in hell I want the sysctl callbacks to actually
> possibly do user space accesses etc.
> 
> They get a kernel buffer that has already been set up. There is no
> iocb or iovec left for them.

I wasn't suggesting the iovec.  Just the iocb, instead of passing in the
ki_filp and the ki_pos.

> (That also means that they can take whatever locks they need,
> including spinlocks, because there's not going to be any random user
> accesses or complex pipe buffer lookups or whatever).
> 
>                 Linus