/* * chardev.c: Creates a read-only char device that says how many times * you have read from the dev file */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* Prototypes - this would normally go in a .h file */ static int device_open(struct inode *, struct file *); static int device_release(struct inode *, struct file *); static ssize_t device_read(struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *); static ssize_t device_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *); #define SUCCESS 0 #define DEVICE_NAME "chardev" /* Dev name as it appears in /proc/devices */ #define BUF_LEN 80 /* Max length of the message from the device */ /* Global variables are declared as static, so are global within the file. */ static int major; /* major number assigned to our device driver */ static int open_device_cnt = 0; /* Is device open? * Used to prevent multiple access to device */ static char msg[BUF_LEN]; /* The msg the device will give when asked */ static char *msg_ptr; static struct class *cls; static struct file_operations chardev_fops = { .read = device_read, .write = device_write, .open = device_open, .release = device_release, }; static int __init chardev_init(void) { major = register_chrdev(0, DEVICE_NAME, &chardev_fops); if (major < 0) { pr_alert("Registering char device failed with %d\n", major); return major; } pr_info("I was assigned major number %d.\n", major); cls = class_create(THIS_MODULE, DEVICE_NAME); device_create(cls, NULL, MKDEV(major, 0), NULL, DEVICE_NAME); pr_info("Device created on /dev/%s\n", DEVICE_NAME); return SUCCESS; } static void __exit chardev_exit(void) { device_destroy(cls, MKDEV(major, 0)); class_destroy(cls); /* Unregister the device */ unregister_chrdev(major, DEVICE_NAME); } /* Methods */ /* Called when a process tries to open the device file, like * "sudo cat /dev/chardev" */ static int device_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { static int counter = 0; if (open_device_cnt) return -EBUSY; open_device_cnt++; sprintf(msg, "I already told you %d times Hello world!\n", counter++); msg_ptr = msg; try_module_get(THIS_MODULE); return SUCCESS; } /* Called when a process closes the device file. */ static int device_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { open_device_cnt--; /* We're now ready for our next caller */ /* Decrement the usage count, or else once you opened the file, you will * never get get rid of the module. */ module_put(THIS_MODULE); return SUCCESS; } /* Called when a process, which already opened the dev file, attempts to * read from it. */ static ssize_t device_read(struct file *filp, /* see include/linux/fs.h */ char *buffer, /* buffer to fill with data */ size_t length, /* length of the buffer */ loff_t *offset) { /* Number of bytes actually written to the buffer */ int bytes_read = 0; /* If we are at the end of message, return 0 signifying end of file. */ if (*msg_ptr == 0) return 0; /* Actually put the data into the buffer */ while (length && *msg_ptr) { /* The buffer is in the user data segment, not the kernel * segment so "*" assignment won't work. We have to use * put_user which copies data from the kernel data segment to * the user data segment. */ put_user(*(msg_ptr++), buffer++); length--; bytes_read++; } /* Most read functions return the number of bytes put into the buffer. */ return bytes_read; } /* Called when a process writes to dev file: echo "hi" > /dev/hello */ static ssize_t device_write(struct file *filp, const char *buff, size_t len, loff_t *off) { pr_alert("Sorry, this operation is not supported.\n"); return -EINVAL; } module_init(chardev_init); module_exit(chardev_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");