[PATCH] kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs

* [PATCH] kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs
@ 2019-05-03 18:24 Joel Fernandes (Google)
  2019-05-04  0:18 ` Masahiro Yamada
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joel Fernandes (Google) @ 2019-05-03 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google),
	Steven Rostedt, Adrian Ratiu, Alexei Starovoitov, Andrew Morton,
	atishp04, bpf, Brendan Gregg, Brendan Gregg, dancol,
	Daniel Borkmann, Dan Williams, dietmar.eggemann, duyuchao,
	gregkh, Guenter Roeck, Jonathan Corbet, Karim Yaghmour,
	Kees Cook, kernel-team, linux-doc, linux-kselftest,
	linux-trace-devel, Manjo Raja Rao, Masahiro Yamada,
	Masami Hiramatsu, Michał Gregorczyk, Michal Gregorczyk,
	Mohammad Husain, Olof Johansson, qais.yousef, rdunlap,
	Shuah Khan, Srinivas Ramana, Tamir Carmeli, yhs

The kheaders archive consisting of the kernel headers used for compiling
bpf programs is in /proc. However there is concern that moving it here
will make it permanent. Let us move it to /sys/kernel as discussed [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1067310/#1265969

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
---
This patch applies on top of the previous patch that was applied to the
driver tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1067310/

 kernel/kheaders.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kheaders.c b/kernel/kheaders.c
index 70ae6052920d..6a16f8f6898d 100644
--- a/kernel/kheaders.c
+++ b/kernel/kheaders.c
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 /*
  * Define kernel_headers_data and kernel_headers_data_end, within which the
@@ -31,39 +30,32 @@ extern char kernel_headers_data;
 extern char kernel_headers_data_end;
 
 static ssize_t
-ikheaders_read_current(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
-		      size_t len, loff_t *offset)
+ikheaders_read(struct file *file,  struct kobject *kobj,
+	       struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
+	       char *buf, loff_t off, size_t len)
 {
-	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, offset,
-				       &kernel_headers_data,
-				       &kernel_headers_data_end -
-				       &kernel_headers_data);
+	memcpy(buf, &kernel_headers_data + off, len);
+	return len;
 }
 
-static const struct file_operations ikheaders_file_ops = {
-	.read = ikheaders_read_current,
-	.llseek = default_llseek,
+static struct bin_attribute kheaders_attr __ro_after_init = {
+	.attr = {
+		.name = "kheaders.tar.xz",
+		.mode = S_IRUGO,
+	},
+	.read = &ikheaders_read,
 };
 
 static int __init ikheaders_init(void)
 {
-	struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
-
-	/* create the current headers file */
-	entry = proc_create("kheaders.tar.xz", S_IRUGO, NULL,
-			    &ikheaders_file_ops);
-	if (!entry)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	proc_set_size(entry,
-		      &kernel_headers_data_end -
-		      &kernel_headers_data);
-	return 0;
+	kheaders_attr.size = (&kernel_headers_data_end -
+			      &kernel_headers_data);
+	return sysfs_create_bin_file(kernel_kobj, &kheaders_attr);
 }
 
 static void __exit ikheaders_cleanup(void)
 {
-	remove_proc_entry("kheaders.tar.xz", NULL);
+	sysfs_remove_bin_file(kernel_kobj, &kheaders_attr);
 }
 
 module_init(ikheaders_init);
-- 
2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog

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