module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.

This eliminates that code (though leaves the flags field in the struct,
for impending use).
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Different tree maintainers picked up independently generated
trivial compile fixes based on linux-next testing, resulting
in some cases where a file would have got more than one addition
of module.h once everything was all merged together.

Delete any duplicates so includecheck isn't complaining about
anything related to module.h/export.h changes.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Allow bint param accept nul values, just do same as bool param.
Signed-off-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
an unsigned int).  That's going away.

A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
will set it to 0 or 1.  This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").

Use a new 'bint' parser for them.

(ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
it's also exposed via sysctl.)

Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (For the sound part)
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> (For the hwmon driver)
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Use more flexible pr_debug.  This allows:

  echo "module params +p" > /dbg/dynamic_debug/control

to turn on debug messages when needed.
Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Through various other implicit include paths, some files were
getting the full module.h file, and hence living the illusion
that they really only needed moduleparam.h -- but the reality
is that once you remove the module.h presence, these show up:

kernel/params.c:583: warning: ‘struct module_kobject’ declared inside parameter list

Such files really require module.h so simply make it so.  As the
file module.h grabs moduleparam.h on the fly, all will be well.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.

Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.

The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.

With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545Signed-off-by: NMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)

Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules.
This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for
built-in ones.

To allow access to the built-in modules we need to
re-trigger all module load events that happened before any
userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all
devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers.

This adds the currently missing /sys/module/<name>/uevent files
to all module entries.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split & trivial fix)

This simplifies the next patch, where we have an attribute on a
builtin module (ie. module == NULL).
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (split into 2)

In STANDARD_PARAM_DEF, param_set_* handles the case in which strtolfn
returns -EINVAL but it may return -ERANGE. If it returns -ERANGE,
param_set_* may set uninitialized value to the paramerter. We should handle
both cases.

The one of the cases in which strtolfn() returns -ERANGE is following:

 *Type of module parameter is long
 *Set the parameter more than LONG_MAX
Signed-off-by: NSatoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: NJonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to
align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary.
This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section
in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in
modules.

Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably
is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and
put those pointers in the special section.
Reported-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.

This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

There may be cases (most obviously, sysfs-writable charp parameters) where
a module needs to prevent sysfs access to parameters.

Rather than express this in terms of a big lock, the functions are
expressed in terms of what they protect against.  This is clearer, esp.
if the implementation changes to a module-level or even param-level lock.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should
always have been const.  Minor flow-through various functions.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

Instead of using a "I kmalloced this" flag, we keep track of the kmalloced
strings and use that list to check if we need to kfree (in practice, the
list is very short).

This means that kparams can be const again, and plugs a leak.  This
is important for drivers/usb/gadget/nokia.c which gets modprobe/rmmod'ed
frequently on the N9000.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

This allows us to generalize the KPARAM_KMALLOCED flag, by calling a function
on every parameter when a module is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

This is more kernel-ish, saves some space, and also allows us to
expand the ops without breaking all the callers who are happy for the
new members to be NULL.

The few places which defined their own param types are changed to the
new scheme (more which crept in recently fixed in following patches).

Since we're touching them anyway, we change get() and set() to take a
const struct kernel_param (which they really are).  This causes some
harmless warnings until we fix them (in following patches).

To reduce churn, module_param_call creates the ops struct so the callers
don't have to change (and casts the functions to reduce warnings).
The modern version which takes an ops struct is called module_param_cb.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

This is modern style, and good to do before we start changing things.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>

An audit by Dongdong Deng revealed that most driver-author-written param
calls don't handle val == NULL (which happens when parameters are specified
with no =, eg "foo" instead of "foo=1").

The only real case to use this is boolean, so handle it specially for that
case and remove a source of bugs for everyone else.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

These are the non-static sysfs attributes that exist on
my test machine.  Fix them to use sysfs_attr_init or
sysfs_bin_attr_init as appropriate.   It simply requires
making a sysfs attribute present to see this.  So this
is a little bit tedious but otherwise not too bad.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
  kernel/params.c: linux/string.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: NJaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NEdward Z. Yang <ezyang@ksplice.com>
Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
spaces from strings all over the tree.

It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  64688     584     592   65864   10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
  64641     584     592   65817   10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)

Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space".

Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below,
and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
    drivers/leds/led-class.c
    drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
    drivers/video/output.c

@@
expression str;
@@

( // ignore skip_spaces cases
while (*str &&  isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
|
- *str &&
isspace(*str)
)
Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word.  This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).
Reported-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.
Reported-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

e180a6b7 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.

Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs.  But that's not all:

1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
   uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
   it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.

The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory.  This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak.  In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.

This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Impact: API cleanup

For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.

So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Impact: cleanup

Rather than hack KPARAM_KMALLOCED into the perm field, separate it out.
Since the perm field was 32 bits and only needs 16, we don't add bloat.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

It takes an 'int' for historical reasons, and there are only two
users: simply switch it over to bool.

The other user (uvesafb.c) will get a (harmless-on-x86) warning until
the next patch is applied.

Cc: Brad Douglas <brad@neruo.com>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo

The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the
module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep
the (mangled) module command line around.  But when set via sysfs (as
about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way
out of the write().  Future reads hit random mem.

So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline
parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably
kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module
unload.

(Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes)
Reported-by: NSitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Diagnosed-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NChristof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Move free_module_param_attrs() into the CONFIG_MODULES section, since
it's only used inside there. Thus avoiding the warning

  kernel/params.c:514: warning: 'free_module_param_attrs' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're
cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys.  Yet
it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that
inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename).

So, introduce a "core_param".  The parameter gets no prefix, but
appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg).  I
thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than
"kernel".  And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die
a horrible death.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Instead of insisting each new module_param sysfs entry is unique,
handle the case where it already exists (for builtin modules).

The current code assumes that all identical prefixes are together in
the section: true for normal uses, but not necessarily so if someone
overrides MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX.  More importantly, it's not true with
the new "core_param()" code which uses "kernel" as a prefix.

This simplifies the caller for the builtin case, at a slight loss of
efficiency (we do the lookup every time to see if the directory
exists).
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at
runtime.  Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not
clear that truncating names is a good idea either.

So let's check at compile time.  We need to move the #define to
moduleparam.h to do this, though.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>