debugfs: add support for self-protecting attribute file fops

In order to protect them against file removal issues, debugfs_create_file()
creates a lifetime managing proxy around each struct file_operations
handed in.

In cases where this struct file_operations is able to manage file lifetime
by itself already, the proxy created by debugfs is a waste of resources.

The most common class of struct file_operations given to debugfs are those
defined by means of the DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() macro.

Introduce a DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() macro to allow any
struct file_operations of this class to be easily made file lifetime aware
and thus, to be operated unproxied.

Specifically, introduce debugfs_attr_read() and debugfs_attr_write()
which wrap simple_attr_read() and simple_attr_write() under the protection
of a debugfs_use_file_start()/debugfs_use_file_finish() pair.

Make DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() set the defined struct file_operations'
->read() and ->write() members to these wrappers.

Export debugfs_create_file_unsafe() in order to allow debugfs users to
create their files in non-proxying operation mode.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index a63e6ea3321c..1438e2322d5c 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ extern struct srcu_struct debugfs_srcu;
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 				   struct dentry *parent, void *data,
 				   const struct file_operations *fops);
+struct dentry *debugfs_create_file_unsafe(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+				   struct dentry *parent, void *data,
+				   const struct file_operations *fops);
 
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_file_size(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 					struct dentry *parent, void *data,
@@ -74,6 +77,26 @@ int debugfs_use_file_start(const struct dentry *dentry, int *srcu_idx)
 
 void debugfs_use_file_finish(int srcu_idx) __releases(&debugfs_srcu);
 
+ssize_t debugfs_attr_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
+			size_t len, loff_t *ppos);
+ssize_t debugfs_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
+			size_t len, loff_t *ppos);
+
+#define DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(__fops, __get, __set, __fmt)		\
+static int __fops ## _open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)	\
+{									\
+	__simple_attr_check_format(__fmt, 0ull);			\
+	return simple_attr_open(inode, file, __get, __set, __fmt);	\
+}									\
+static const struct file_operations __fops = {				\
+	.owner	 = THIS_MODULE,					\
+	.open	 = __fops ## _open,					\
+	.release = simple_attr_release,				\
+	.read	 = debugfs_attr_read,					\
+	.write	 = debugfs_attr_write,					\
+	.llseek  = generic_file_llseek,				\
+}
+
 struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                 struct dentry *new_dir, const char *new_name);
 
@@ -193,6 +216,9 @@ static inline void debugfs_use_file_finish(int srcu_idx)
 	__releases(&debugfs_srcu)
 { }
 
+#define DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(__fops, __get, __set, __fmt)	\
+	static const struct file_operations __fops = { 0 }
+
 static inline struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                 struct dentry *new_dir, char *new_name)
 {