From 2c7ccb3c362bc86aeb3e52d6fbf15f7f480ca961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:54:14 -0700 Subject: module: Clarify documentation of module_param_call() Commit 9bbb9e5a3310 ("param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly") added the comment that module_param_call() was deprecated, during a large scale refactoring to bring sanity to type casting back then. In 2017 following more cleanups, it became useful again as it wraps a common pattern of creating an ops struct for a given get/set pair: b2f270e87473 ("module: Prepare to convert all module_param_call() prototypes") ece1996a21ee ("module: Do not paper over type mismatches in module_param_call()") static const struct kernel_param_ops __param_ops_##name = \ { .flags = 0, .set = _set, .get = _get }; \ __module_param_call(MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, \ name, &__param_ops_##name, arg, perm, -1, 0) __module_param_call(MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, name, ops, arg, perm, -1, 0) Many users of module_param_cb() appear to be almost universally open-coding the same thing that module_param_call() does now. Don't discourage[1] people from using module_param_call(): clarify the comment to show that module_param_cb() is useful if you repeatedly use the same pair of get/set functions. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202308301546.5C789E5EC@keescook/ Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Sagi Grimberg Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Joe Perches Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/moduleparam.h') diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index 962cd41a2cb5..d4452f93d060 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -293,7 +293,11 @@ struct kparam_array = { __param_str_##name, THIS_MODULE, ops, \ VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } } -/* Obsolete - use module_param_cb() */ +/* + * Useful for describing a set/get pair used only once (i.e. for this + * parameter). For repeated set/get pairs (i.e. the same struct + * kernel_param_ops), use module_param_cb() instead. + */ #define module_param_call(name, _set, _get, arg, perm) \ static const struct kernel_param_ops __param_ops_##name = \ { .flags = 0, .set = _set, .get = _get }; \ -- cgit