Re: 4096 byte limit to /proc/PID/environ ?

[James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Anton Arapov wrote:
> 
>>   Hey guys, the future of this patch is important for me. What do you 
>> think, has this patch any chances to be committed to upstream?
>>
>> James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com> writes:
>>
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> There isn't that much that is duplicated - and there are also bits of
>>> the /proc/PID/mem code that are not needed in this case, so I'm not
>>> really sure if it is worth doing.
>>>
>>> I did submit a patch a few months ago - see:
>>>
>>> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117862109623007&w=2>
>>
>>
> 
> Looks reasonable to me, except for the one overlong line.
> 

OK, here is the patch (without the long line) against 2.6.23-rc5 - what 
else needs to be done to get it committed?

James Pearson

--- ./fs/proc/base.c.dist       2007-09-01 07:08:24.000000000 +0100
+++ ./fs/proc/base.c    2007-09-05 14:08:15.762518000 +0100
@@ -199,27 +199,6 @@ static int proc_root_link(struct inode *
          (task->state == TASK_STOPPED || task->state == TASK_TRACED) && \
          security_ptrace(current,task) == 0))

-static int proc_pid_environ(struct task_struct *task, char * buffer)
-{
-       int res = 0;
-       struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(task);
-       if (mm) {
-               unsigned int len;
-
-               res = -ESRCH;
-               if (!ptrace_may_attach(task))
-                       goto out;
-
-               len  = mm->env_end - mm->env_start;
-               if (len > PAGE_SIZE)
-                       len = PAGE_SIZE;
-               res = access_process_vm(task, mm->env_start, buffer, 
len, 0);
-out:
-               mmput(mm);
-       }
-       return res;
-}
-
  static int proc_pid_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char * buffer)
  {
         int res = 0;
@@ -658,6 +637,85 @@ static const struct file_operations proc
         .open           = mem_open,
  };

+static ssize_t environ_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
+                       size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+       struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
+       char *page;
+       unsigned long src = *ppos;
+       int ret = -ESRCH;
+       struct mm_struct *mm;
+       size_t max_len;
+
+       if (!task)
+               goto out_no_task;
+
+       if (!ptrace_may_attach(task))
+               goto out;
+
+       ret = -ENOMEM;
+       page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+       if (!page)
+               goto out;
+
+       ret = 0;
+
+       mm = get_task_mm(task);
+       if (!mm)
+               goto out_free;
+
+       max_len = (count > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : count;
+
+       while (count > 0) {
+               int this_len, retval;
+
+               this_len = mm->env_end - (mm->env_start + src);
+
+               if (this_len <= 0) {
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               if (this_len > max_len)
+                       this_len = max_len;
+
+               retval = access_process_vm(task, (mm->env_start + src),
+                       page, this_len, 0);
+
+               if (!ptrace_may_attach(task)) {
+                       ret = -ESRCH;
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               if (retval <= 0) {
+                       ret = retval;
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               if (copy_to_user(buf, page, retval)) {
+                       ret = -EFAULT;
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               ret += retval;
+               src += retval;
+               buf += retval;
+               count -= retval;
+       }
+       *ppos = src;
+
+       mmput(mm);
+out_free:
+       free_page((unsigned long) page);
+out:
+       put_task_struct(task);
+out_no_task:
+       return ret;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations proc_environ_operations = {
+       .read           = environ_read,
+};
+
  static ssize_t oom_adjust_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
                                 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
  {
@@ -2048,7 +2106,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_
         DIR("task",       S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, task),
         DIR("fd",         S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, fd),
         DIR("fdinfo",     S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, fdinfo),
-       INF("environ",    S_IRUSR, pid_environ),
+       REG("environ",    S_IRUSR, environ),
         INF("auxv",       S_IRUSR, pid_auxv),
         INF("status",     S_IRUGO, pid_status),
  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
@@ -2335,7 +2393,7 @@ out_no_task:
  static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
         DIR("fd",        S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, fd),
         DIR("fdinfo",    S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, fdinfo),
-       INF("environ",   S_IRUSR, pid_environ),
+       REG("environ",   S_IRUSR, environ),
         INF("auxv",      S_IRUSR, pid_auxv),
         INF("status",    S_IRUGO, pid_status),
  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG