Some driver might want to pass in an 64-bit value, so introduce
a module param type 'ullong'.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it
assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module).
This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments
are for init.
For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to
the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog"
meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of
reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided.
eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"'
Gives:
argv[0] = '/debug-init'
argv[1] = 'test'
argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true'
envp[0] = 'HOME=/'
envp[1] = 'TERM=linux'
envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo'
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We are repeating the functionality of kstrtol in param_set_long, and the
same for kstrtoint. We can get rid of the extra code by using the right
functions.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Commit 6072ddc852 ("kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()")
broke the handling of signed integer types, fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The usage of strict_strto*() is not preferred, because strict_strto*() is
obsolete. Thus, kstrto*() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For some strings (e.g. version string), they are permitted to be larger
than PAGE_SIZE (although meaningless), so recommend to use scnprintf()
instead of sprintf().
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Currently the params.c code allows only two "set" functions to have
no arguments. If a parameter does not have an argument, then it
looks at the set function and tests if it is either param_set_bool()
or param_set_bint(). If it is not one of these functions, then it
fails the loading of the module.
But there may be module parameters that have different set functions
and still allow no arguments. But unless each of these cases adds
their function to the if statement, it wont be allowed to have no
arguments. This method gets rather messing and does not scale.
Instead, introduce a flags field to the kernel_param_ops, where if
the flag KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG is set, the parameter will not fail
if it does not contain an argument. It will be expected that the
corresponding set function can handle a NULL pointer as "val".
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In param_get_byte(), to which the macro STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(byte, ...) expands,
"%c" is used to print an unsigned char. So it gets printed as a character what
is not intended here. Use "%hhu" instead.
[Rusty: note drivers which would be effected:
drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/main.c
drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c:68
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c
drivers/usb/gadget/g_ffs.c
]
Acked-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> (for ntb)
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> (for g_ffs.c)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <christophjaeger@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
There is no such path as /sys/parameters, module parameters live in
/sys/module/*/parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On allocation failure, it would fail to free the old attrs array which
was no longer referenced by anything (since it would free the old
module_param_attrs struct on the way out).
Comment the suspicious-looking krealloc() usage to explain why it *isn't*
actually buggy, despite looking like a classic realloc() usage bug.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
I left 1 printk which uses __FILE__, __LINE__ explicitly, which should
not be subject to generic preferences expressed via pr_fmt().
+ tweaks suggested by Joe Perches:
- add doing to irq-enabled warning, like others. It wont happen often..
- change sysfs failure crit, not just err, make it 1 line in logs.
- coalese 2 format fragments into 1 >80 char line
cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In commit 9fb48c744: "params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback
signature", the if-guard added to the pr_debug was overzealous; no
callers pass NULL, and existing code above and below the guard assumes
as much. Change the if-guard to match, and silence the Smack
complaint.
CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a 3rd arg, named "doing", to unknown-options callbacks invoked
from parse_args(). The arg is passed as:
"Booting kernel" from start_kernel(),
initcall_level_names[i] from do_initcall_level(),
mod->name from load_module(), via parse_args(), parse_one()
parse_args() already has the "name" parameter, which is renamed to
"doing" to better reflect current uses 1,2 above. parse_args() passes
it to an altered parse_one(), which now passes it down into the
unknown option handler callbacks.
The mod->name will be needed to handle dyndbg for loadable modules,
since params passed by modprobe are not qualified (they do not have a
"$modname." prefix), and by the time the unknown-param callback is
called, the module name is not otherwise available.
Minor tweaks:
Add param-name to parse_one's pr_debug(), current message doesnt
identify the param being handled, add it.
Add a pr_info to print current level and level_name of the initcall,
and number of registered initcalls at that level. This adds 7 lines
to dmesg output, like:
initlevel:6=device, 172 registered initcalls
Drop "parameters" from initcall_level_names[], its unhelpful in the
pr_info() added above. This array is passed into parse_args() by
do_initcall_level().
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.
Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
This eliminates that code (though leaves the flags field in the struct,
for impending use).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Different tree maintainers picked up independently generated
trivial compile fixes based on linux-next testing, resulting
in some cases where a file would have got more than one addition
of module.h once everything was all merged together.
Delete any duplicates so includecheck isn't complaining about
anything related to module.h/export.h changes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Allow bint param accept nul values, just do same as bool param.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
an unsigned int). That's going away.
A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").
Use a new 'bint' parser for them.
(ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
it's also exposed via sysctl.)
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (For the sound part)
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> (For the hwmon driver)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Use more flexible pr_debug. This allows:
echo "module params +p" > /dbg/dynamic_debug/control
to turn on debug messages when needed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Through various other implicit include paths, some files were
getting the full module.h file, and hence living the illusion
that they really only needed moduleparam.h -- but the reality
is that once you remove the module.h presence, these show up:
kernel/params.c:583: warning: ‘struct module_kobject’ declared inside parameter list
Such files really require module.h so simply make it so. As the
file module.h grabs moduleparam.h on the fly, all will be well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.
Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.
The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.
With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules.
This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for
built-in ones.
To allow access to the built-in modules we need to
re-trigger all module load events that happened before any
userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all
devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers.
This adds the currently missing /sys/module/<name>/uevent files
to all module entries.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split & trivial fix)
This simplifies the next patch, where we have an attribute on a
builtin module (ie. module == NULL).
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split into 2)
In STANDARD_PARAM_DEF, param_set_* handles the case in which strtolfn
returns -EINVAL but it may return -ERANGE. If it returns -ERANGE,
param_set_* may set uninitialized value to the paramerter. We should handle
both cases.
The one of the cases in which strtolfn() returns -ERANGE is following:
*Type of module parameter is long
*Set the parameter more than LONG_MAX
Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to
align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary.
This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section
in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in
modules.
Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably
is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and
put those pointers in the special section.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.
This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
There may be cases (most obviously, sysfs-writable charp parameters) where
a module needs to prevent sysfs access to parameters.
Rather than express this in terms of a big lock, the functions are
expressed in terms of what they protect against. This is clearer, esp.
if the implementation changes to a module-level or even param-level lock.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should
always have been const. Minor flow-through various functions.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Instead of using a "I kmalloced this" flag, we keep track of the kmalloced
strings and use that list to check if we need to kfree (in practice, the
list is very short).
This means that kparams can be const again, and plugs a leak. This
is important for drivers/usb/gadget/nokia.c which gets modprobe/rmmod'ed
frequently on the N9000.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
This allows us to generalize the KPARAM_KMALLOCED flag, by calling a function
on every parameter when a module is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
This is more kernel-ish, saves some space, and also allows us to
expand the ops without breaking all the callers who are happy for the
new members to be NULL.
The few places which defined their own param types are changed to the
new scheme (more which crept in recently fixed in following patches).
Since we're touching them anyway, we change get() and set() to take a
const struct kernel_param (which they really are). This causes some
harmless warnings until we fix them (in following patches).
To reduce churn, module_param_call creates the ops struct so the callers
don't have to change (and casts the functions to reduce warnings).
The modern version which takes an ops struct is called module_param_cb.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
This is modern style, and good to do before we start changing things.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
An audit by Dongdong Deng revealed that most driver-author-written param
calls don't handle val == NULL (which happens when parameters are specified
with no =, eg "foo" instead of "foo=1").
The only real case to use this is boolean, so handle it specially for that
case and remove a source of bugs for everyone else.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
doc: fix console doc typo
doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
...
Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
These are the non-static sysfs attributes that exist on
my test machine. Fix them to use sysfs_attr_init or
sysfs_bin_attr_init as appropriate. It simply requires
making a sysfs attribute present to see this. So this
is a little bit tedious but otherwise not too bad.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Constify struct sysfs_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.
Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime
* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime
* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed
* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.
Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime
* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime
* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed
* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
kernel/params.c: linux/string.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
spaces from strings all over the tree.
It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
text data bss dec hex filename
64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)
Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space".
Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below,
and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
drivers/leds/led-class.c
drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
drivers/video/output.c
@@
expression str;
@@
( // ignore skip_spaces cases
while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
|
- *str &&
isspace(*str)
)
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
e180a6b775 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.
Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all:
1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.
The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: API cleanup
For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.
So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: cleanup
Rather than hack KPARAM_KMALLOCED into the perm field, separate it out.
Since the perm field was 32 bits and only needs 16, we don't add bloat.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Hannes Reinecke
Rusty Russell
Felipe Contreras
Jean Delvare
Jingoo Han
Li Zhong
Chen Gang
Steven Rostedt
Christoph Jaeger
David Woodhouse
Jim Cromie
Pawel Moll
Paul Gortmaker
Dave Young
Michal Schmidt
Kay Sievers
Satoru Moriya
Jonathan Cameron
Dmitry Torokhov
Lucas De Marchi
Linus Torvalds
Jiri Kosina
Eric W. Biederman
Emese Revfy
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Edward Z. Yang
André Goddard Rosa
Peter Oberparleiter