netdev - [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:07:26 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize_name()

More and more drivers will check for bad characters in the hwmon name
and all are using the same code snippet. Consolidate that code by adding
a new hwmon_sanitize_name() function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
---
 Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst |  9 ++++-
 drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c                    | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/hwmon.h                    |  3 ++
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
index c41eb6108103..12f4a9bcef04 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ register/unregister functions::
 
   void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
 
+  char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name);
+
+  char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name);
+
 hwmon_device_register_with_groups registers a hardware monitoring device.
 The first parameter of this function is a pointer to the parent device.
 The name parameter is a pointer to the hwmon device name. The registration
@@ -93,7 +97,10 @@ removal would be too late.
 
 All supported hwmon device registration functions only accept valid device
 names. Device names including invalid characters (whitespace, '*', or '-')
-will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory.
+will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory. Before calling a
+register function you should either use hwmon_sanitize_name or
+devm_hwmon_sanitize_name to replace any invalid characters with an
+underscore.
 
 Using devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info()
 --------------------------------------------
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 989e2c8496dd..619ef9f9a16e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,55 @@ void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwmon_device_unregister);
 
+static char *__hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *old_name)
+{
+	char *name, *p;
+
+	if (dev)
+		name = devm_kstrdup(dev, old_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	else
+		name = kstrdup(old_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!name)
+		return NULL;
+
+	for (p = name; *p; p++)
+		if (hwmon_is_bad_char(*p))
+			*p = '_';
+
+	return name;
+}
+
+/**
+ * hwmon_sanitize_name - Replaces invalid characters in a hwmon name
+ * @name: NUL-terminated name
+ *
+ * Allocates a new string where any invalid characters will be replaced
+ * by an underscore.
+ *
+ * Returns newly allocated name or %NULL in case of error.
+ */
+char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name)
+{
+	return __hwmon_sanitize_name(NULL, name);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_sanitize_name);
+
+/**
+ * devm_hwmon_sanitize_name - resource managed hwmon_sanitize_name()
+ * @dev: device to allocate memory for
+ * @name: NUL-terminated name
+ *
+ * Allocates a new string where any invalid characters will be replaced
+ * by an underscore.
+ *
+ * Returns newly allocated name or %NULL in case of error.
+ */
+char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name)
+{
+	return __hwmon_sanitize_name(dev, name);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwmon_sanitize_name);
+
 static void __init hwmon_pci_quirks(void)
 {
 #if defined CONFIG_X86 && defined CONFIG_PCI
diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index eba380b76d15..4efaf06fd2b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/hwmon.h
+++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h
@@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
 int hwmon_notify_event(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
 		       u32 attr, int channel);
 
+char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name);
+char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name);
+
 /**
  * hwmon_is_bad_char - Is the char invalid in a hwmon name
  * @ch: the char to be considered
-- 
2.30.2