A kobject is meant to manage the lifecycle of some resource.
However the module sysfs code only creates a kobject to get a
"notes" subdirectory in sysfs.
This can be achieved easier and cheaper by using a sysfs group.
Switch the notes attribute code to such a group, similar to how the
section allocation in the same file already works.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227-sysfs-const-bin_attr-module-v2-5-e267275f0f37@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
The existing allocation logic manually stuffs two allocations into one.
This is hard to understand and of limited value, given that all the
section names are allocated on their own anyways.
Une one allocation per datastructure.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227-sysfs-const-bin_attr-module-v2-4-e267275f0f37@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
This is now an otherwise empty wrapper around a 'struct bin_attribute',
not providing any functionality. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227-sysfs-const-bin_attr-module-v2-3-e267275f0f37@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
'struct bin_attribute' already contains the member 'private' to pass
custom data to the attribute handlers.
Use that instead of the custom 'address' member.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227-sysfs-const-bin_attr-module-v2-2-e267275f0f37@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
The member is only used to iterate over all attributes in
free_sect_attrs(). However the attribute group can already be used for
that. Use the group and drop 'nsections'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227-sysfs-const-bin_attr-module-v2-1-e267275f0f37@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
These structs are never modified, move them to read-only memory.
This makes the API clearer and also prepares for the constification of
'struct attribute' itself.
While at it, also constify 'modinfo_attrs_count'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-attr-module-v1-3-3790b53e0abf@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Deduplicate ->read() callbacks of bin_attributes which are backed by a
simple buffer in memory:
Use the newly introduced sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read() helper instead,
either by referencing it directly or by declaring such bin_attributes
with BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE_RO() or BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE_ADMIN_RO().
Aside from a reduction of LoC, this shaves off a few bytes from vmlinux
(304 bytes on an x86_64 allyesconfig).
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Acked-by: Zhi Wang <zhiwang@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92ee0a0e83a5a3f3474845db6c8575297698933a.1712410202.git.lukas@wunner.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
(for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).
As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct module_notes_attrs.
[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The variable module_sysfs_initialized is used for checking whether
module_kset has been initialized. Checking module_kset itself works
just fine for that.
This is a leftover from commit 7405c1e15e ("kset: convert /sys/module
to use kset_create").
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
[mcgrof: adjusted commit log as suggested by Christophe Leroy]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
No functional change.
This patch migrates module sysfs support out of core code into
kernel/module/sysfs.c. In addition simple code refactoring to
make this possible.
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
