sparc: Add support for seek and shorter read to /dev/mdesc
/dev/mdesc on Linux does not support reading arbitrary number
of bytes and seeking while /dev/mdesc on Solaris does. This
causes tools that work on Solaris to break on Linux. This patch
adds these two capabilities to /dev/mdesc.
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index a1a4400..99632a8 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -906,29 +906,85 @@
smp_fill_in_sib_core_maps();
}
-static ssize_t mdesc_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
- size_t len, loff_t *offp)
+/* mdesc_open() - Grab a reference to mdesc_handle when /dev/mdesc is
+ * opened. Hold this reference until /dev/mdesc is closed to ensure
+ * mdesc data structure is not released underneath us. Store the
+ * pointer to mdesc structure in private_data for read and seek to use
+ */
+static int mdesc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct mdesc_handle *hp = mdesc_grab();
- int err;
if (!hp)
return -ENODEV;
- err = hp->handle_size;
- if (len < hp->handle_size)
- err = -EMSGSIZE;
- else if (copy_to_user(buf, &hp->mdesc, hp->handle_size))
- err = -EFAULT;
- mdesc_release(hp);
+ file->private_data = hp;
- return err;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t mdesc_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
+ size_t len, loff_t *offp)
+{
+ struct mdesc_handle *hp = file->private_data;
+ unsigned char *mdesc;
+ int bytes_left, count = len;
+
+ if (*offp >= hp->handle_size)
+ return 0;
+
+ bytes_left = hp->handle_size - *offp;
+ if (count > bytes_left)
+ count = bytes_left;
+
+ mdesc = (unsigned char *)&hp->mdesc;
+ mdesc += *offp;
+ if (!copy_to_user(buf, mdesc, count)) {
+ *offp += count;
+ return count;
+ } else {
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+}
+
+static loff_t mdesc_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
+{
+ struct mdesc_handle *hp;
+
+ switch (whence) {
+ case SEEK_CUR:
+ offset += file->f_pos;
+ break;
+ case SEEK_SET:
+ break;
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ hp = file->private_data;
+ if (offset > hp->handle_size)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ else
+ file->f_pos = offset;
+
+ return offset;
+}
+
+/* mdesc_close() - /dev/mdesc is being closed, release the reference to
+ * mdesc structure.
+ */
+static int mdesc_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+ mdesc_release(file->private_data);
+ return 0;
}
static const struct file_operations mdesc_fops = {
- .read = mdesc_read,
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .llseek = noop_llseek,
+ .open = mdesc_open,
+ .read = mdesc_read,
+ .llseek = mdesc_llseek,
+ .release = mdesc_close,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
static struct miscdevice mdesc_misc = {
