Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/39] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}

From: Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:41:06 +0300

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:41:03PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
> argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.

> +static int proc_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> +{
> +	struct proc_dir_entry *de = PDE(inode);
> +
> +	return seq_open(file, de->seq_ops);
> +}
> +
> +static const struct file_operations proc_seq_fops = {
> +	.open		= proc_seq_open,
> +	.read		= seq_read,
> +	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
> +	.release	= seq_release,
> +};
> +
> +struct proc_dir_entry *proc_create_seq_data(const char *name, umode_t mode,
> +		struct proc_dir_entry *parent, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> +		void *data)
> +{
> +	struct proc_dir_entry *p;
> +
> +	p = proc_create_data(name, mode, parent, &proc_seq_fops, data);
> +	if (p)
> +		p->seq_ops = ops;
> +	return p;
> +}

Should be oopsable.
Once proc_create_data() returns, entry is live, ->open can be called.

> --- a/fs/proc/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry {
>  	struct completion *pde_unload_completion;
>  	const struct inode_operations *proc_iops;
>  	const struct file_operations *proc_fops;
> +	const struct seq_operations *seq_ops;
>  	void *data;
>  	unsigned int low_ino;
>  	nlink_t nlink;

"struct proc_dir_entry is 192/128 bytes now.
If someone knows how to pad array to certain size without union
please tell.