Currently, in 13.2 Flashing keyboard LEDs, the description of the
control-flow integrity, "Furthermore, the function prototype with
unsigned long argument may be an obstacle to the control-flow integrity
.", will confuse the reader.
It may lead the reader to think about hardware-assisted CFI like Intel
CET uses the shadow stack attack for ROP (backward-edge protection). But
the description of CFI here talks about the function pointer checking
with the prototype (forward-edge protection).
So add more information to make it more clear.
Close#151
The description of the attribute was added in sysfs section and referenced in vinput section.
In vinput section, just described the class_attribute and some macros about sysfs class.
Add file name at vinput-related examples begin.
After forking, Each file descriptor in the child refers to the same
open file description as the parent. So when calling open() before
fork(), the child can access the device file without checking by
exclusive access in device_open(). It may cause race conditions
in device_ioctl().
Because of that, it is unnecessary to check the multiple access
in device_open(). It just needs check in device_ioctl(), since
read(), write(), seek() system call are atomic [1][2].
Related discussion:
- https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/issues/148
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/53022DB1.4070805@gmail.com/
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/files.htmlClose#148
The current Makefile is missing one more pdflatex pass.
The correct steps are : pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex -> pdflatex [1]. Otherwise, bib items will not be showing properly.
[1] https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Compile#latex-recipes
Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
Presently, the representation of showing which version will use the
method to find out the system call table is vague.
Related discussion:
* sysprog21/lkmpg: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/pull/142
Change the "alloc_ret" and "cdev_ret" initial values to non-zero.
According to the source code, "alloc_chrdev_region" and "cdev_add"
return zero on success, and negative code on failure.
So, if the "alloc_chrdev_region" failed, the if condition becomes true,
then we will jump to the label "error" by goto, checking each return
value whether is a success state from both functions mentioned above
and dealing with it properly for exiting the process.
However, it checks the success state by comparing the return value
with zero (means success), and we got "cdev_ret == 0" is true from
the initial value zero, while we didn't execute "cdev_add" yet.
Hence, there was a logic error when the initial value is zero.
Co-authored-by: NOVBobLee <defru04002@gamil.com>
Previously ioctl.c is a userspace program for chardev2.c and chardev.h [1].
But now, this file is an independent kernel module, and the original code
disappear.
This patch adds back the original userspace code and renames it to
userspace_ioctl.c.
[1] https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/x856.html
Instead of using the old register_chrdev / unregister_chrdev API,
cdev interface which is newer and would be better for new driver programmers
in most cases. This commit is trying to give the brief overview for
this different interface.
This script do mainly 2 things:
1.
Generate file `Contributors` with git log in following format:
Contributor's name,<1-st e-mail>[,<2nd e-mail>][,<3rd e-mail>]...
The 2-nd email and so on are based on file `.mailmap` in the root
directory of the repo.
Note that it will also append contributors in File `Include`; and
will NOT append contributors in File `Exclude`.
If there are new contributors, script will sort `Contributor` after
append new contributors into each file; Otherwise it do nothing.
2.
Generate contrib.tex based on `Contributors` into lib/contrib.tex in
following format:
[name], (reasonable width) % [1-st e-mail]
Which is inspired by The Not So Short Introduction to Latex 2e[1]
We need to maintain `.mailmap`, `Exclude` and `Include` manually.
All Chinese name should be converted into English/Pinyin in `.mailmap`,
otherwise we may need extra pkg for latex to parse Chinese characters.
[1] - https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdfClose#68
Smatch[1][2] is a pluggable static analysis for C. It may help us find
out the potential problem of the example code.
Doing with smatch, if set the --file-output flag, it will generate the
{}.c.smatch report for each c file. This will make a little bit
complicated to collect all the report messages. So, here we stay at the
default setting, stdout for the smatch messages.
For more information, see:
- https://lwn.net/Articles/696624/
- https://elinux.org/images/d/d3/Bargmann.pdf
Also, fix the warning from Smatch:
Smatch failed: 1 warning(s), 1 error(s)
lkmpg/examples/procfs2.c:57 procfile_write() error: buffer overflow 'procfs_buffer' 1024 <= 1024
lkmpg/examples/kbleds.c:58 kbleds_init() warn: argument 5 to %lx specifier is cast from pointer
Furthermore, the effect of the write operation in procfs2.c is too
implied. So after writing, print the buffer every time.
Close#122
[1] https://github.com/error27/smatch
[2] https://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git
