Patch "sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool

to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sysctl-introduce-new-proc-handler-proc_dobool.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit bbf31a200888318ee55f83362148ad4511f3408c
Author: Jia He <hejianet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Aug 3 12:59:36 2021 +0200

    sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool
    
    [ Upstream commit a2071573d6346819cc4e5787b4206f2184985160 ]
    
    This is to let bool variable could be correctly displayed in
    big/little endian sysctl procfs. sizeof(bool) is arch dependent,
    proc_dobool should work in all arches.
    
    Suggested-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@xxxxxxxxx>
    [thuth: rebased the patch to the current kernel version]
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index c202a72e16906..47cf70c8eb93c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ typedef int proc_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void *buffer,
 		size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 
 int proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+int proc_dobool(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
+		size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int proc_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b29a9568ebbe4..abe0f16d53641 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -546,6 +546,21 @@ static void proc_put_char(void **buf, size_t *size, char c)
 	}
 }
 
+static int do_proc_dobool_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
+				int *valp,
+				int write, void *data)
+{
+	if (write) {
+		*(bool *)valp = *lvalp;
+	} else {
+		int val = *(bool *)valp;
+
+		*lvalp = (unsigned long)val;
+		*negp = false;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int do_proc_dointvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
 				 int *valp,
 				 int write, void *data)
@@ -808,6 +823,26 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 				   buffer, lenp, ppos, conv, data);
 }
 
+/**
+ * proc_dobool - read/write a bool
+ * @table: the sysctl table
+ * @write: %TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file
+ * @buffer: the user buffer
+ * @lenp: the size of the user buffer
+ * @ppos: file position
+ *
+ * Reads/writes up to table->maxlen/sizeof(unsigned int) integer
+ * values from/to the user buffer, treated as an ASCII string.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success.
+ */
+int proc_dobool(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
+		size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	return do_proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos,
+				do_proc_dobool_conv, NULL);
+}
+
 /**
  * proc_dointvec - read a vector of integers
  * @table: the sysctl table
@@ -1644,6 +1679,12 @@ int proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 
+int proc_dobool(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
 int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		  void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -3503,6 +3544,7 @@ int __init sysctl_init(void)
  * No sense putting this after each symbol definition, twice,
  * exception granted :-)
  */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dobool);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_douintvec);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec_jiffies);