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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 /fs/proc | |
| 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 'fs/proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/cmdline.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/cmdline.c b/fs/proc/cmdline.c index fa762c5fbcb2..91fe1597af7b 100644 --- a/fs/proc/cmdline.c +++ b/fs/proc/cmdline.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/proc_fs.h> #include <linux/seq_file.h> +#include "internal.h" static int cmdline_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { @@ -13,7 +14,10 @@ static int cmdline_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) static int __init proc_cmdline_init(void) { - proc_create_single("cmdline", 0, NULL, cmdline_proc_show); + struct proc_dir_entry *pde; + + pde = proc_create_single("cmdline", 0, NULL, cmdline_proc_show); + pde->size = saved_command_line_len + 1; return 0; } fs_initcall(proc_cmdline_init); |