IB/ipoib: Log sysfs 'dev_id' accesses from userspace
authorArseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:51:12 +0000 (17:51 +0300)
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:47:52 +0000 (11:47 -0400)
Some tools may currently be using only the deprecated attribute;
let's print an elaborate and clear deprecation notice to kmsg.

To do that, we have to replace the whole sysfs file, since we inherit
the original one from netdev.

Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c

index a046076670e6d81faae49ca9fb12640302447d7d..1df90f0d9e6456ed6bc53f80ec3878be66f9346b 100644 (file)
@@ -2387,6 +2387,35 @@ int ipoib_add_pkey_attr(struct net_device *dev)
        return device_create_file(&dev->dev, &dev_attr_pkey);
 }
 
+/*
+ * We erroneously exposed the iface's port number in the dev_id
+ * sysfs field long after dev_port was introduced for that purpose[1],
+ * and we need to stop everyone from relying on that.
+ * Let's overload the shower routine for the dev_id file here
+ * to gently bring the issue up.
+ *
+ * [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg272123.html
+ */
+static ssize_t dev_id_show(struct device *dev,
+                          struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev);
+
+       if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
+               netdev_info_once(ndev,
+                       "\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n",
+                       current->comm);
+
+       return sprintf(buf, "%#x\n", ndev->dev_id);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(dev_id);
+
+int ipoib_intercept_dev_id_attr(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+       device_remove_file(&dev->dev, &dev_attr_dev_id);
+       return device_create_file(&dev->dev, &dev_attr_dev_id);
+}
+
 static struct net_device *ipoib_add_port(const char *format,
                                         struct ib_device *hca, u8 port)
 {
@@ -2428,6 +2457,8 @@ static struct net_device *ipoib_add_port(const char *format,
         */
        ndev->priv_destructor = ipoib_intf_free;
 
+       if (ipoib_intercept_dev_id_attr(ndev))
+               goto sysfs_failed;
        if (ipoib_cm_add_mode_attr(ndev))
                goto sysfs_failed;
        if (ipoib_add_pkey_attr(ndev))