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author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2022-09-08 21:21:54 +0300 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-11-18 13:55:07 -0800 |
commit | 941baf6febaa88c057192084ca280d976c7c7239 (patch) | |
tree | b38ce270a9f8c6c5f6f2f157a3b174d41d464687 /init | |
parent | 9b71f79f6e349251e529ef25f2d3bf8aa6168d26 (diff) |
proc: give /proc/cmdline size
Most /proc files don't have length (in fstat sense). This leads to
inefficiencies when reading such files with APIs commonly found in modern
programming languages. They open file, then fstat descriptor, get st_size
== 0 and either assume file is empty or start reading without knowing
target size.
cat(1) does OK because it uses large enough buffer by default. But naive
programs copy-pasted from SO aren't:
let mut f = std::fs::File::open("/proc/cmdline").unwrap();
let mut buf: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
f.read_to_end(&mut buf).unwrap();
will result in
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/cmdline", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
statx(0, NULL, AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT, STATX_ALL, NULL) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
statx(3, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_ALL, {stx_mask=STATX_BASIC_STATS|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0444, stx_size=0, ...}) = 0
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
read(3, "BOOT_IMAGE=(hd3,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.", 32) = 32
read(3, "19.6-100.fc35.x86_64 root=/dev/m", 32) = 32
read(3, "apper/fedora_localhost--live-roo"..., 64) = 64
read(3, "ocalhost--live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fe"..., 128) = 116
read(3, "", 12)
open/stat is OK, lseek looks silly but there are 3 unnecessary reads
because Rust starts with 32 bytes per Vec<u8> and grows from there.
In case of /proc/cmdline, the length is known precisely.
Make variables readonly while I'm at it.
P.S.: I tried to scp /proc/cpuinfo today and got empty file
but this is separate story.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YxoywlbM73JJN3r+@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index aa21add5f7c5..d213371cc067 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ void (*__initdata late_time_init)(void); /* Untouched command line saved by arch-specific code. */ char __initdata boot_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; /* Untouched saved command line (eg. for /proc) */ -char *saved_command_line; +char *saved_command_line __ro_after_init; +unsigned int saved_command_line_len __ro_after_init; /* Command line for parameter parsing */ static char *static_command_line; /* Untouched extra command line */ @@ -667,6 +668,8 @@ static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line) strcpy(saved_command_line + len, extra_init_args); } } + + saved_command_line_len = strlen(saved_command_line); } /* @@ -1379,7 +1382,7 @@ static void __init do_initcall_level(int level, char *command_line) static void __init do_initcalls(void) { int level; - size_t len = strlen(saved_command_line) + 1; + size_t len = saved_command_line_len + 1; char *command_line; command_line = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); |