On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:41:03PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
> argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.
> +static int proc_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> +{
> + struct proc_dir_entry *de = PDE(inode);
> +
> + return seq_open(file, de->seq_ops);
> +}
> +
> +static const struct file_operations proc_seq_fops = {
> + .open = proc_seq_open,
> + .read = seq_read,
> + .llseek = seq_lseek,
> + .release = seq_release,
> +};
> +
> +struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_seq_data(const char *name, umode_t mode,
> + struct proc_dir_entry *parent, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> + void *data)
> +{
> + struct proc_dir_entry *p;
> +
> + p = proc_create_data(name, mode, parent, &proc_seq_fops, data);
> + if (p)
> + p->seq_ops = ops;
> + return p;
> +}
Should be oopsable.
Once proc_create_data() returns, entry is live, ->open can be called.
> --- a/fs/proc/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry {
> struct completion *pde_unload_completion;
> const struct inode_operations *proc_iops;
> const struct file_operations *proc_fops;
> + const struct seq_operations *seq_ops;
> void *data;
> unsigned int low_ino;
> nlink_t nlink;
"struct proc_dir_entry is 192/128 bytes now.
If someone knows how to pad array to certain size without union
please tell.
