/* * sleep.c - create a /proc file, and if several processes try to open it * at the same time, put all but one to sleep. */ #include #include #include /* for sprintf() */ #include /* Specifically, a module */ #include #include /* Necessary because we use proc fs */ #include #include /* for get_user and put_user */ #include #include /* For putting processes to sleep and waking them up */ #include #include #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 6, 0) #define HAVE_PROC_OPS #endif /* Here we keep the last message received, to prove that we can process our * input. */ #define MESSAGE_LENGTH 80 static char message[MESSAGE_LENGTH]; static struct proc_dir_entry *our_proc_file; #define PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME "sleep" /* Since we use the file operations struct, we can't use the special proc * output provisions - we have to use a standard read function, which is this * function. */ static ssize_t module_output(struct file *file, /* see include/linux/fs.h */ char __user *buf, /* The buffer to put data to (in the user segment) */ size_t len, /* The length of the buffer */ loff_t *offset) { static int finished = 0; int i; char output_msg[MESSAGE_LENGTH + 30]; /* Return 0 to signify end of file - that we have nothing more to say * at this point. */ if (finished) { finished = 0; return 0; } sprintf(output_msg, "Last input:%s\n", message); for (i = 0; i < len && output_msg[i]; i++) put_user(output_msg[i], buf + i); finished = 1; return i; /* Return the number of bytes "read" */ } /* This function receives input from the user when the user writes to the * /proc file. */ static ssize_t module_input(struct file *file, /* The file itself */ const char __user *buf, /* The buffer with input */ size_t length, /* The buffer's length */ loff_t *offset) /* offset to file - ignore */ { int i; /* Put the input into Message, where module_output will later be able * to use it. */ for (i = 0; i < MESSAGE_LENGTH - 1 && i < length; i++) get_user(message[i], buf + i); /* we want a standard, zero terminated string */ message[i] = '\0'; /* We need to return the number of input characters used */ return i; } /* 1 if the file is currently open by somebody */ static atomic_t already_open = ATOMIC_INIT(0); /* Queue of processes who want our file */ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(waitq); /* Called when the /proc file is opened */ static int module_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { /* If the file's flags include O_NONBLOCK, it means the process does not * want to wait for the file. In this case, if the file is already open, * we should fail with -EAGAIN, meaning "you will have to try again", * instead of blocking a process which would rather stay awake. */ if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) && atomic_read(&already_open)) return -EAGAIN; /* This is the correct place for try_module_get(THIS_MODULE) because if * a process is in the loop, which is within the kernel module, * the kernel module must not be removed. */ try_module_get(THIS_MODULE); while (atomic_cmpxchg(&already_open, 0, 1)) { int i, is_sig = 0; /* This function puts the current process, including any system * calls, such as us, to sleep. Execution will be resumed right * after the function call, either because somebody called * wake_up(&waitq) (only module_close does that, when the file * is closed) or when a signal, such as Ctrl-C, is sent * to the process */ wait_event_interruptible(waitq, !atomic_read(&already_open)); /* If we woke up because we got a signal we're not blocking, * return -EINTR (fail the system call). This allows processes * to be killed or stopped. */ for (i = 0; i < _NSIG_WORDS && !is_sig; i++) is_sig = current->pending.signal.sig[i] & ~current->blocked.sig[i]; if (is_sig) { /* It is important to put module_put(THIS_MODULE) here, because * for processes where the open is interrupted there will never * be a corresponding close. If we do not decrement the usage * count here, we will be left with a positive usage count * which we will have no way to bring down to zero, giving us * an immortal module, which can only be killed by rebooting * the machine. */ module_put(THIS_MODULE); return -EINTR; } } return 0; /* Allow the access */ } /* Called when the /proc file is closed */ static int module_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { /* Set already_open to zero, so one of the processes in the waitq will * be able to set already_open back to one and to open the file. All * the other processes will be called when already_open is back to one, * so they'll go back to sleep. */ atomic_set(&already_open, 0); /* Wake up all the processes in waitq, so if anybody is waiting for the * file, they can have it. */ wake_up(&waitq); module_put(THIS_MODULE); return 0; /* success */ } /* Structures to register as the /proc file, with pointers to all the relevant * functions. */ /* File operations for our proc file. This is where we place pointers to all * the functions called when somebody tries to do something to our file. NULL * means we don't want to deal with something. */ #ifdef HAVE_PROC_OPS static const struct proc_ops file_ops_4_our_proc_file = { .proc_read = module_output, /* "read" from the file */ .proc_write = module_input, /* "write" to the file */ .proc_open = module_open, /* called when the /proc file is opened */ .proc_release = module_close, /* called when it's closed */ .proc_lseek = noop_llseek, /* return file->f_pos */ }; #else static const struct file_operations file_ops_4_our_proc_file = { .read = module_output, .write = module_input, .open = module_open, .release = module_close, .llseek = noop_llseek, }; #endif /* Initialize the module - register the proc file */ static int __init sleep_init(void) { our_proc_file = proc_create(PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME, 0644, NULL, &file_ops_4_our_proc_file); if (our_proc_file == NULL) { pr_debug("Error: Could not initialize /proc/%s\n", PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME); return -ENOMEM; } proc_set_size(our_proc_file, 80); proc_set_user(our_proc_file, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID); pr_info("/proc/%s created\n", PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME); return 0; } /* Cleanup - unregister our file from /proc. This could get dangerous if * there are still processes waiting in waitq, because they are inside our * open function, which will get unloaded. I'll explain how to avoid removal * of a kernel module in such a case in chapter 10. */ static void __exit sleep_exit(void) { remove_proc_entry(PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME, NULL); pr_debug("/proc/%s removed\n", PROC_ENTRY_FILENAME); } module_init(sleep_init); module_exit(sleep_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");