ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch
introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar
manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that
fit the configfs usage model.
Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that
requires a binary blob as part of the configuration of a resource,
such as bitstream loading for FPGAs, DTBs for dynamically created
devices etc.
Look at Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt for internals
and howto use them.
This patch is against linux-next as of today that contains
Christoph's configfs rework.
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
[hch: folded a fix from Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>]
[hch: a few tiny updates based on review feedback]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Remove the old show_attribute and store_attribute methods and update
the documentation. Also replace the two C samples with a single new
one in the proper samples directory where people expect to find it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Add methods to struct configfs_attribute to directly show and store
attributes without adding boilerplate code to every user. In addition
to the methods this also adds 3 helper macros to define read/write,
read-only and write-only attributes with a single line of code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The difference between "count" and "len" is that "len" is capped at
4095. Changing it like this makes it match how sysfs_write_file() is
implemented.
This is a static analysis patch. I haven't found any store_attribute()
functions where this change makes a difference.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Seems copied from sysfs, but I don't see a reason here nor there to use
a semaphore instead of a mutex. Convert.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
The attribute store/show code currently limits attributes at PAGE_SIZE.
This code comes from sysfs, where it still works that way.
However, PAGE_SIZE is not constant. A 16k attribute string works on
ia64 but not on x86. Really a subsystem shouldn't allow different
attribute sizes based on platform.
As such, limit all simple attributes to 4k. This works on all
platforms, and is consistent with all current code.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() in binfmt_misc, configfs, and sysfs.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Attributes in configfs are text files. As such, most handlers expect to be
able to call functions like simple_strtoul() without checking the bounds
of the buffer. Change the call to zero terminate the buffer before calling
the client's ->store() method. This does reduce the attribute size from
PAGE_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE-1.
Also, change get_zeroed_page() to alloc_page(), as we are handling the
termination.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the
configfs filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
check_perm() does not drop the reference to the module when kzalloc()
failure occurs.
Signed-Off-By: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
configfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format argument
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups
The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
