Patch "debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     debugfs-introduce-a-public-file_operations-accessor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 86f0e06767dda7863d6d2a8f0b3b857e6ea876a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 21:43:01 +0200
Subject: debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>

commit 86f0e06767dda7863d6d2a8f0b3b857e6ea876a0 upstream.

This patch introduces an accessor which can be used
by the users of debugfs (drivers, fs, ...) to get the
original file_operations struct. It also removes the
REAL_FOPS_DEREF macro in file.c and converts the code
to use the public version.

Previously, REAL_FOPS_DEREF was only available within
the file.c of debugfs. But having a public getter
available for debugfs users is important as some
drivers (carl9170 and b43) use the pointer of the
original file_operations in conjunction with container_of()
within their debugfs implementations.

Reviewed-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/debugfs/file.c       |   13 +++++--------
 include/linux/debugfs.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_use_file_finis
 
 #define F_DENTRY(filp) ((filp)->f_path.dentry)
 
-#define REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry)					\
-	((const struct file_operations *)(dentry)->d_fsdata)
-
 static int open_proxy_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
 	const struct dentry *dentry = F_DENTRY(filp);
@@ -112,7 +109,7 @@ static int open_proxy_open(struct inode
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	real_fops = REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry);
+	real_fops = debugfs_real_fops(filp);
 	real_fops = fops_get(real_fops);
 	if (!real_fops) {
 		/* Huh? Module did not clean up after itself at exit? */
@@ -143,7 +140,7 @@ static ret_type full_proxy_ ## name(prot
 {									\
 	const struct dentry *dentry = F_DENTRY(filp);			\
 	const struct file_operations *real_fops =			\
-		REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry);				\
+		debugfs_real_fops(filp);				\
 	int srcu_idx;							\
 	ret_type r;							\
 									\
@@ -176,7 +173,7 @@ static unsigned int full_proxy_poll(stru
 				struct poll_table_struct *wait)
 {
 	const struct dentry *dentry = F_DENTRY(filp);
-	const struct file_operations *real_fops = REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry);
+	const struct file_operations *real_fops = debugfs_real_fops(filp);
 	int srcu_idx;
 	unsigned int r = 0;
 
@@ -193,7 +190,7 @@ static unsigned int full_proxy_poll(stru
 static int full_proxy_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
 	const struct dentry *dentry = F_DENTRY(filp);
-	const struct file_operations *real_fops = REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry);
+	const struct file_operations *real_fops = debugfs_real_fops(filp);
 	const struct file_operations *proxy_fops = filp->f_op;
 	int r = 0;
 
@@ -241,7 +238,7 @@ static int full_proxy_open(struct inode
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	real_fops = REAL_FOPS_DEREF(dentry);
+	real_fops = debugfs_real_fops(filp);
 	real_fops = fops_get(real_fops);
 	if (!real_fops) {
 		/* Huh? Module did not cleanup after itself at exit? */
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -45,6 +45,23 @@ extern struct dentry *arch_debugfs_dir;
 
 extern struct srcu_struct debugfs_srcu;
 
+/**
+ * debugfs_real_fops - getter for the real file operation
+ * @filp: a pointer to a struct file
+ *
+ * Must only be called under the protection established by
+ * debugfs_use_file_start().
+ */
+static inline const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(struct file *filp)
+	__must_hold(&debugfs_srcu)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Neither the pointer to the struct file_operations, nor its
+	 * contents ever change -- srcu_dereference() is not needed here.
+	 */
+	return filp->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
+}
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS)
 
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chunkeey@googlemail.com are

queue-4.8/b43-fix-debugfs-crash.patch
queue-4.8/carl9170-fix-debugfs-crashes.patch
queue-4.8/b43legacy-fix-debugfs-crash.patch
queue-4.8/debugfs-introduce-a-public-file_operations-accessor.patch