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2015-11-06module: export param_free_charp()Dan Streetman
Change the param_free_charp() function from static to exported. It is used by zswap in the next patch ("zswap: use charp for zswap param strings"). Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-07-01Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module lock doing that too. A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits) modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS. rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() module: add per-module param_lock module: make perm const params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes. modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'. kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks module: Rework module_addr_{min,max} module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup() module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch() ...
2015-06-23module: add per-module param_lockDan Streetman
Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params. Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module). The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect modification of any and all kernel params. While this generally works, there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg(). If the module to be loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/* config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param. This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is not blocked by changes to other module params. All built-in modules continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them will never cause load-time param changing. This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock the global param mutex. They are replaced with direct calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex. Suggested-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-06-23module: make perm constDan Streetman
Change the struct kernel_param.perm field to a const, as it should never be changed. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cut from larger patch)
2015-05-28kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_onlyLuis R. Rodriguez
This takes out the bool_enable_only implementation from the module loading code and generalizes it so that others can make use of it. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-28kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops usesLuis R. Rodriguez
Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops, sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle. In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with patch --> fail --> grammar --> Coccinelle --> new patch conflicts automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request. Test compiled on x86_64 against: * allnoconfig * allmodconfig * allyesconfig @ const_found @ identifier ops; @@ const struct kernel_param_ops ops = { }; @ const_not_found depends on !const_found @ identifier ops; @@ -struct kernel_param_ops ops = { +const struct kernel_param_ops ops = { }; Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-20module: add core_param_unsafeDmitry Torokhov
Similarly to module_param_unsafe(), add the helper to be used by core code wishing to expose unsafe debugging or testing parameters that taint the kernel when set. Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-20module: add extra argument for parse_params() callbackLuis R. Rodriguez
This adds an extra argument onto parse_params() to be used as a way to make the unused callback a bit more useful and generic by allowing the caller to pass on a data structure of its choice. An example use case is to allow us to easily make module parameters for every module which we will do next. @ parse @ identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max; identifier unknown, param, val, doing; type s16; @@ extern char *parse_args(const char *name, char *args, const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num, s16 level_min, s16 level_max, + void *arg, int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val, const char *doing + , void *arg )); @ parse_mod @ identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max; identifier unknown, param, val, doing; type s16; @@ char *parse_args(const char *name, char *args, const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num, s16 level_min, s16 level_max, + void *arg, int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val, const char *doing + , void *arg )) { ... } @ parse_args_found @ expression R, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6; identifier func; @@ ( R = parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, func); | R = parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, &func); | R = parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, NULL); | parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, func); | parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, &func); | parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, + NULL, NULL); ) @ parse_args_unused depends on parse_args_found @ identifier parse_args_found.func; @@ int func(char *param, char *val, const char *unused + , void *arg ) { ... } @ mod_unused depends on parse_args_found @ identifier parse_args_found.func; expression A1, A2, A3; @@ - func(A1, A2, A3); + func(A1, A2, A3, NULL); Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Cc: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-10-14kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>Geert Uytterhoeven
Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of __start___param[] and __stop___param in <linux/moduleparam.h>. This requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c const. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-09-11moduleparam: Resolve missing-field-initializer warningMark Rustad
Resolve a missing-field-initializer warning, that is produced by every reference to module_param_call, by using designated initialization for the first field. That is enough to silence the complaint. The message is only seen when doing a W=2 build. I happened to be using gcc 4.8.3, but I think most versions would produce the warning when it is enabled. It can either be silenced by using even a single designated initializer as I did here, or providing values for all of the fields. Because of the number of references to the macro, this change silences many warnings in W=2 builds. One instance of the full warning message looks like this: /home/share/git/nn-mdr/include/linux/moduleparam.h:198:16: warning: missing initializer for field ‘free’ of ‘struct kernel_param_ops’ [-Wmissing-field-initializers] static struct kernel_param_ops __param_ops_##name = \ ^ /home/share/git/nn-mdr/fs/fuse/inode.c:35:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘module_param_call’ module_param_call(max_user_bgreq, set_global_limit, param_get_uint, ^ /home/share/git/nn-mdr/include/linux/moduleparam.h:56:9: note: ‘free’ declared here void (*free)(void *arg); Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27param: check for tainting before calling set op.Rusty Russell
This means every set op doesn't need to call it, and it can move into params.c. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27module: add module_param_unsafe and module_param_named_unsafeJani Nikula
Add the helpers to be used by modules wishing to expose unsafe debugging or testing module parameters that taint the kernel when set. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module paramsJani Nikula
Add flags field to struct kernel_params, and add the first flag: unsafe parameter. Modifying a kernel parameter with the unsafe flag set, either via the kernel command line or sysfs, will issue a warning and taint the kernel. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-08-27module: rename KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG to avoid confusionJani Nikula
Make it clear this is about kernel_param_ops, not kernel_param (which will soon have a flags field of its own). No functional changes. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-07-17Add module param type 'ullong'Hannes Reinecke
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>
2014-04-28param: hand arguments after -- straight to initRusty Russell
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>
2014-03-24VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.Rusty Russell
Summary of http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/363 : Ted: module_param(queue_depth, int, 444) Joe: 0444! Rusty: User perms >= group perms >= other perms? Joe: CLASS_ATTR, DEVICE_ATTR, SENSOR_ATTR and SENSOR_ATTR_2? Side effect of stricter permissions means removing the unnecessary S_IFREG from several callers. Note that the BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) & 2) test was removed: a fair number of drivers fail this test, so that will be the debate for a future patch. Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> for drivers/pci/slot.c Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-17module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macroMark Charlebois
This code makes a compile time type check that is optimized away. Clang complains that it generates an unused function: linux/kernel/panic.c:471:1: warning: unused function '__check_panic' [-Wunused-function] core_param(panic, panic_timeout, int, 0644); ^ linux/moduleparam.h:283:2: note: expanded from macro 'core_param' param_check_##type(name, &(var)); \ ^ <scratch space>:87:1: note: expanded from here param_check_int ^ linux/moduleparam.h:369:34: note: expanded from macro 'param_check_int' #define param_check_int(name, p) __param_check(name, p, int) ^ linux/moduleparam.h:349:22: note: expanded from macro '__param_check' static inline type *__check_##name(void) { return(p); } ^ <scratch space>:88:1: note: expanded from here __check_panic GCC won't complain for a static inline function but would if it was just a static function. Adding the unused attribute to the function declaration removes the warning. Per request from Rusty Russell it is marked as __always_unused as the code is meant to be optimized away. This code works for both GCC and clang. Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-08-20module: Add flag to allow mod params to have no argumentsSteven Rostedt
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>
2013-07-02There is no /sys/parametersJean Delvare
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>
2012-12-14moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-06-08module_param: stop double-calling parameters.Rusty Russell
Commit 026cee0086fe1df4cf74691cf273062cc769617d "params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters" set old-style module parameters to level 0. And we call those level 0 calls where we used to, early in start_kernel(). We also loop through the initcall levels and call the levelled module_params before the corresponding initcall. Unfortunately level 0 is early_init(), so we call the standard module_param calls twice. (Turns out most things don't care, but at least ubi.mtd does). Change the level to -1 for standard module_param calls. Reported-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-04-30params: add 3rd arg to option handler callback signatureJim Cromie
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>
2012-03-26params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parametersPawel Moll
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>
2012-03-26module_param: remove support for bool parameters which are really int.Rusty Russell
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>
2012-01-13module_param: check that bool parameters really are bool.Rusty Russell
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 tightens the check (you'll get a warning about incompatible return type) but still allows it. Next kernel version, we'll remove it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-13module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.Rusty Russell
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>
2012-01-13module_param: check type correctness for module_param_arrayRusty Russell
module_param_array(), unlike its non-array cousins, didn't check the type of the variable. Fixing this found two bugs. Cc: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-10-31module.h: relocate MODULE_PARM_DESC into moduleparam.hPaul Gortmaker
There are files which use module_param and MODULE_PARM_DESC back to back. They only include moduleparam.h which makes sense, but the implicit presence of module.h everywhere hid the fact that MODULE_PARM_DESC wasn't in moduleparam.h at all. Relocate the macro to moduleparam.h so that the moduleparam infrastructure can be used independently of module.h Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-26params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equalMichal Schmidt
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)
2011-05-19module: reorder kparam_array to remove alignment padding on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy
Reorder structure kparam_array to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds, dropping its size from 40 to 32 bytes. Also update the macro module_param_array_named to initialise the structure using its member names to allow it to be changed without touching all its call sites. 'git grep' finds module_param_array in 1037 places so this patch will save a small amount of data space across many modules. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-24param: add null statement to compiled-in module paramsLinus Walleij
Add an unused struct declaration statement requiring a terminating semicolon to the compile-in case to provoke an error if __MODULE_INFO() is used without the terminating semicolon. Previously MODULE_ALIAS("foo") (no semicolon) compiled fine if MODULE was not selected. Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-10-26modules: no need to align .modinfo stringsJan Beulich
gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where strings are being used a lot. Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save some space. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checksRusty Russell
gcc allows this when arg is a function, but sparse complains: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c:303:1: error: cannot dereference this type drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c:307:1: error: cannot dereference this type drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c:311:1: error: cannot dereference this type Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-11param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.hRusty Russell
Also reorders the macros with the most common ones at the top. 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>
2010-08-11param: locking for kernel parametersRusty Russell
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>
2010-08-11param: make param sections const.Rusty Russell
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>
2010-08-11param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.Rusty Russell
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>
2010-08-11param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directlyRusty Russell
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
2009-10-29param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.Rusty Russell
e180a6b7759a "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
2009-06-12module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.Rusty Russell
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>
2009-06-12module_param: split perm field into flags and permRusty Russell
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>
2009-06-12module_param: invbool should take a 'bool', not an 'int'Rusty Russell
It takes an 'int' for historical reasons, and there are only two users: simply switch it over to bool. The other user (uvesafb.c) will get a (harmless-on-x86) warning until the next patch is applied. Cc: Brad Douglas <brad@neruo.com> Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31param: fix charp parameters set via sysfsRusty Russell
Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem. So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module unload. (Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes) Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22core_param() for genuinely core kernel parametersRusty Russell
There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys. Yet it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename). So, introduce a "core_param". The parameter gets no prefix, but appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg). I thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than "kernel". And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die a horrible death. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtimeRusty Russell
The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at runtime. Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not clear that truncating names is a good idea either. So let's check at compile time. We need to move the #define to moduleparam.h to do this, though. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-13moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failuresIvan Kokshaysky
On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where param_set/get are local functions. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964 Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-28remove __attribute_used__Adrian Bunk
Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__. [Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-17constify string/array kparam tracking structuresJan Beulich
.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update. arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO Storage class should be before const qualifier kernel/printk.c: comment fix update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS. Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README kbuild: more doc. cleanups doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text trivial documentation patch for platform.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore". Fix misspellings of "agressive". drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch Correct trivial typo in log2.h. Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c. ...