sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.

To match the previous patch which used the pre-alloc buffer for
writes, this patch causes reads to use the same buffer.
This is not strictly necessary as the current seq_read() will allocate
on first read, so user-space can trigger the required pre-alloc.  But
consistency is valuable.

The read function is somewhat simpler than seq_read() and, for example,
does not support reading from an offset into the file: reads must be
at the start of the file.

As seq_read() does not use the prealloc buffer, ->seq_show is
incompatible with ->prealloc and caused an EINVAL return from open().
sysfs code which calls into kernfs always chooses the correct function.

As the buffer is shared with writes and other reads, the mutex is
extended to cover the copy_to_user.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index 70186e2e692..697390ea47b 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -189,13 +189,16 @@ static ssize_t kernfs_file_direct_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 	const struct kernfs_ops *ops;
 	char *buf;
 
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buf = of->prealloc_buf;
+	if (!buf)
+		buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/*
-	 * @of->mutex nests outside active ref and is primarily to ensure that
-	 * the ops aren't called concurrently for the same open file.
+	 * @of->mutex nests outside active ref and is used both to ensure that
+	 * the ops aren't called concurrently for the same open file, and
+	 * to provide exclusive access to ->prealloc_buf (when that exists).
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&of->mutex);
 	if (!kernfs_get_active(of->kn)) {
@@ -210,21 +213,22 @@ static ssize_t kernfs_file_direct_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 	else
 		len = -EINVAL;
 
-	kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
-	mutex_unlock(&of->mutex);
-
 	if (len < 0)
-		goto out_free;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	if (copy_to_user(user_buf, buf, len)) {
 		len = -EFAULT;
-		goto out_free;
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	*ppos += len;
 
+ out_unlock:
+	kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
+	mutex_unlock(&of->mutex);
  out_free:
-	kfree(buf);
+	if (buf != of->prealloc_buf)
+		kfree(buf);
 	return len;
 }
 
@@ -690,6 +694,14 @@ static int kernfs_fop_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	 */
 	of->atomic_write_len = ops->atomic_write_len;
 
+	error = -EINVAL;
+	/*
+	 * ->seq_show is incompatible with ->prealloc,
+	 * as seq_read does its own allocation.
+	 * ->read must be used instead.
+	 */
+	if (ops->prealloc && ops->seq_show)
+		goto err_free;
 	if (ops->prealloc) {
 		int len = of->atomic_write_len ?: PAGE_SIZE;
 		of->prealloc_buf = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);