Providing access to the underlying `struct miscdevice` is useful for various reasons. For example, this allows you access the miscdevice's internal `struct device` for use with the `dev_*` printing macros. Note that since the underlying `struct miscdevice` could get freed at any point after the fops->open() call, only the open call is given access to it. To print from other calls, they should take a refcount on the device to keep it alive. Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> --- rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs index 0cb79676c139..c5af1d5ec4be 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ pub trait MiscDevice { /// Called when the misc device is opened. /// /// The returned pointer will be stored as the private data for the file. - fn open(_file: &File) -> Result<Self::Ptr>; + fn open(_file: &File, _misc: &MiscDeviceRegistration<Self>) -> Result<Self::Ptr>; /// Called when the misc device is released. fn release(device: Self::Ptr, _file: &File) { @@ -190,14 +190,27 @@ impl<T: MiscDevice> VtableHelper<T> { return ret; } + // SAFETY: The opwn call of a file can access the private data. + let misc_ptr = unsafe { (*file).private_data }; + // SAFETY: This is a miscdevice, so `misc_open()` set the private data to a pointer to the + // associated `struct miscdevice` before calling into this method. Furthermore, `misc_open()` + // ensures that the miscdevice can't be unregistered and freed during this call to `fops_open`. + let misc = unsafe { &*misc_ptr.cast::<MiscDeviceRegistration<T>>() }; + // SAFETY: - // * The file is valid for the duration of this call. + // * The file is valid for the duration of the `T::open` call. // * There is no active fdget_pos region on the file on this thread. - let ptr = match T::open(unsafe { File::from_raw_file(file) }) { + let file = unsafe { File::from_raw_file(file) }; + + let ptr = match T::open(file, misc) { Ok(ptr) => ptr, Err(err) => return err.to_errno(), }; + // This overwrites the private data from above. It makes sense to not hold on to the misc + // pointer since the `struct miscdevice` can get unregistered as soon as we return from this + // call, so the misc pointer might be dangling on future file operations. + // // SAFETY: The open call of a file owns the private data. unsafe { (*file).private_data = ptr.into_foreign().cast_mut() }; -- 2.47.1.545.g3c1d2e2a6a-goog