Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2017-07-06

[RFC PATCH] efivarfs: define integrity_read method

From: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk (Al Viro)
Date: 2017-07-06 12:46:03
Also in: linux-efi, linux-fsdevel

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:14:01AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
This patch defines an ->integrity_read file operation method to read data for
integrity hash collection.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
-static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
-		size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+static ssize_t __efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
+				    size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
+				    struct iov_iter *iter)
 {
 	struct efivar_entry *var = file->private_data;
 	unsigned long datasize = 0;
@@ -96,14 +98,32 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
 		goto out_free;
 
 	memcpy(data, &attributes, sizeof(attributes));
-	size = simple_read_from_buffer(userbuf, count, ppos,
-				       data, datasize + sizeof(attributes));
+
+	if (!iter)
+		size = simple_read_from_buffer(userbuf, count, ppos, data,
+					       datasize + sizeof(attributes));
+	else
+		size = copy_to_iter(data, datasize + sizeof(attributes), iter);
Egads...  This kind of kludges is too ugly to exist.  What the hell for?  If you
want to define something that looks like ->read_iter(), bloody make it proper
read_iter.  Really working one, that is - without this "our oh-so-special needs
do not include file position" crap.

Seriously, this kind of calling conventions alone is enough for a NAK with
extreme prejudice.  Something like
ssize_t simple_read_iter_from_buffer(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to,
                                const void *from, size_t available)
{
        loff_t pos = iocb->ki_pos;
        size_t ret;

        if (pos < 0)
                return -EINVAL;
        if (pos >= available)
                return 0;
        ret = copy_to_iter(to, from + pos, available - pos);
        if (!ret && iov_iter_count(to))
                return -EFAULT;
        iocb->ki_pos = pos + ret;
        return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_read_iter_from_buffer);

in fs/libfs.c and turn the efivarfs_file_read() into a real ->read_iter() by
replacing simple_read_from_buffer to simple_read_iter_from_buffer (and adjusting
the arguments, of course).  All there is to it.  Sheesh...
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