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, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 6eb58a8ed03c..8ef56d9499a4 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -284,6 +284,34 @@ const struct file_operations debugfs_full_proxy_file_operations = {
 	.open = full_proxy_open,
 };
 
+ssize_t debugfs_attr_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
+			size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	ssize_t ret;
+	int srcu_idx;
+
+	ret = debugfs_use_file_start(F_DENTRY(file), &srcu_idx);
+	if (likely(!ret))
+		ret = simple_attr_read(file, buf, len, ppos);
+	debugfs_use_file_finish(srcu_idx);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_attr_read);
+
+ssize_t debugfs_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
+			 size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	ssize_t ret;
+	int srcu_idx;
+
+	ret = debugfs_use_file_start(F_DENTRY(file), &srcu_idx);
+	if (likely(!ret))
+		ret = simple_attr_write(file, buf, len, ppos);
+	debugfs_use_file_finish(srcu_idx);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_attr_write);
+
 static struct dentry *debugfs_create_mode(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 					  struct dentry *parent, void *value,
 				          const struct file_operations *fops,