Thread (72 messages) 72 messages, 8 authors, 2021-07-07

Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file

From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Date: 2021-05-10 13:38:54
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-s390, lkml

On Sat 2021-05-08 20:25:29, Jia He wrote:
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We have '%pD' for printing a filename. It may not be perfect (by
default it only prints one component.)

As suggested by Linus at [1]:
A dentry has a parent, but at the same time, a dentry really does
inherently have "one name" (and given just the dentry pointers, you
can't show mount-related parenthood, so in many ways the "show just
one name" makes sense for "%pd" in ways it doesn't necessarily for
"%pD"). But while a dentry arguably has that "one primary component",
a _file_ is certainly not exclusively about that last component.

Hence "file_dentry_name()" simply shouldn't use "dentry_name()" at all.
Despite that shared code origin, and despite that similar letter
choice (lower-vs-upper case), a dentry and a file really are very
different from a name standpoint.
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index f0c35d9b65bf..8220ab1411c5 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/dcache.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/math64.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -923,10 +924,17 @@ static noinline_for_stack
 char *file_dentry_name(char *buf, char *end, const struct file *f,
 			struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
 {
+	const struct path *path = &f->f_path;
This dereferences @f before it is checked by check_pointer().
+	char *p;
+	char tmp[128];
+
 	if (check_pointer(&buf, end, f, spec))
 		return buf;
 
-	return dentry_name(buf, end, f->f_path.dentry, spec, fmt);
+	p = d_path_fast(path, (char *)tmp, 128);
+	buf = string(buf, end, p, spec);
Is 128 a limit of the path or just a compromise, please?

d_path_fast() limits the size of the buffer so we could use @buf
directly. We basically need to imitate what string_nocheck() does:

     + the length is limited by min(spec.precision, end-buf);
     + the string need to get shifted by widen_string()

We already do similar thing in dentry_name(). It might look like:

char *file_dentry_name(char *buf, char *end, const struct file *f,
			struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
{
	const struct path *path;
	int lim, len;
	char *p;

	if (check_pointer(&buf, end, f, spec))
		return buf;

	path = &f->f_path;
	if (check_pointer(&buf, end, path, spec))
		return buf;

	lim = min(spec.precision, end - buf);
	p = d_path_fast(path, buf, lim);
	if (IS_ERR(p))
		return err_ptr(buf, end, p, spec);

	len = strlen(buf);
	return widen_string(buf + len, len, end, spec);
}

Note that the code is _not_ even compile tested. It might include
some ugly mistake.
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+
+	return buf;
 }
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 static noinline_for_stack
@@ -2296,7 +2304,7 @@ early_param("no_hash_pointers", no_hash_pointers_enable);
  * - 'a[pd]' For address types [p] phys_addr_t, [d] dma_addr_t and derivatives
  *           (default assumed to be phys_addr_t, passed by reference)
  * - 'd[234]' For a dentry name (optionally 2-4 last components)
- * - 'D[234]' Same as 'd' but for a struct file
+ * - 'D' Same as 'd' but for a struct file
It is not really the same. We should make it clear that it prints
the full path:

+   * - 'D' Same as 'd' but for a struct file; prints full path with
+       the mount-related parenthood
  * - 'g' For block_device name (gendisk + partition number)
  * - 't[RT][dt][r]' For time and date as represented by:
  *      R    struct rtc_time
-- 
2.17.1
Best Regards,
Petr
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