Andrew Morton <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:23:00 -0600
> [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>>
>> This patch generalizes the concept of files in /proc that are
>> related to processes but live in the root directory of /proc
>>
>> Ideally this would reuse infrastructure from the rest of the
>> process specific parts of proc but unfortunately
>> security_task_to_inode must not be called on files that
>> are not strictly per process. security_task_to_inode
>> really needs to be reexamined as the security label can
>> change in important places that we are not currently
>> catching, but I'm not certain that simplifies this problem.
>>
>> By at least matching the structure of the rest of proc
>> we get more idiom reuse and it becomes easier to spot problems
>> in the way things are put together.
>>
>> Later things like /proc/mounts are likely to be moved into
>> proc_base as well. If union mounts are ever supported
>> we may be able to make /proc a union mount, and properly
>> split it into 2 filesystems.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> /*
>> + * proc base
>> + *
>> + * These are the directory entries in the root directory of /proc
>> + * that properly belong to the /proc filesystem, as they describe
>> + * describe something that is process related.
>> + */
>> +static struct pid_entry proc_base_stuff[] = {
>> + NOD(PROC_TGID_INO, "self", S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO,
>> + &proc_self_inode_operations, NULL, {}),
>> + {}
>> +};
>
> We could save a bunch of bytes here.
>
>> + /* Lookup the directory entry */
>> + for (p = proc_base_stuff; p->name; p++) {
>
> By using ARRAY_SIZE here.
>
>> + for (; nr < (ARRAY_SIZE(proc_base_stuff) - 1); filp->f_pos++, nr++) {
>
> like that does.
Agreed. The problem is that I loose consistency with the other proc
lookup methods. If it wasn't for the call to security_task_inode I could use
proc_pident_lookup. Getting some common helpers is still a direction
I want to pursue, though not as much as I want to kill the hard
coded inode numbers.
Now maybe that means I need to remove the trailing empty entry on
all of the struct pid_entry candidates.
Another part of it is that I would like to convert from an array
of pid_entries into a linked list, eventually so I can have subsystems
that register their proc entries instead of having code that is riddled
with ifdefs.
Eric
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