On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 11:42:42AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:11:43 +0800
> Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The @*pos of enable_monitors_start() can not be -1 or other negative value.
> > And I checked that the *pos is 0(right?). That is safe. Sorry for not being
> > that ture and maybe this is a notice here. Because if it is a negative value,
> > the returned m_def is a point to a data place 16 bytes before &rv_monitors_list.
> > That is a not ture rv_monitors_list stucture data. But it is not possiable now.
> > Maybe "inspired" from your question. Look it more, I image this simulation.
> > If the monitor(and all is enabled) is more enough to let the *pos to increase
> > to -1. And the returned m_def is last monitor that returned from enable_monitors_start().
> > The enable_monitors_next() check from the last monitor and return NULL.
> > Only show the last monitor. This will not really happen I think.
> > But I am not focus enough to the seq file code or others now, so this may be
> > more possible to be not right. Late reply continued from me..
>
>
> So basically you are saying we should have:
>
> > +static void *enabled_monitors_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
> > +{
> > + struct rv_monitor_def *m_def;
> > + loff_t l;
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&rv_interface_lock);
>
> if (list_empty(&rv_monitors_list->list))
> return NULL;
> ?
>From the function itself, this looks safer. Thanks.
> Probably safer to have that.
>
> -- Steve
>
>
> > + m_def = list_entry(&rv_monitors_list, struct rv_monitor_def, list);
> > +
> > + for (l = 0; l <= *pos; ) {
> > + m_def = enabled_monitors_next(m, m_def, &l);
> > + if (!m_def)
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return m_def;
> > +}
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