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Message-ID: <20150708205348.GH1357@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 22:53:48 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add write access to debugfs
regs file
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:36:18PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Allow write access to the regs file in the debugfs interface, with the
> following parameters:
>
> echo <name> <reg> <value> > regs
>
> Where "name" is the register name (as shown in the header row), "reg" is
> the register address (as shown in the first column) and "value" is the
> 16-bit value. e.g.:
>
> echo GLOBAL 1a 5550 > regs
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c
> index 8c130c0..04e6eb6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c
> @@ -1648,6 +1648,35 @@ static int mv88e6xxx_regs_show(struct seq_file *s, void *p)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static ssize_t mv88e6xxx_regs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> + size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> + struct seq_file *s = file->private_data;
> + struct dsa_switch *ds = s->private;
> + struct mv88e6xxx_priv_state *ps = ds_to_priv(ds);
> + char name[count];
Is this safe? Is count somehow limited? If i was to echo 8K to the
file would i not exceed the kernel stack space?
Andrew
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