Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon/qm - allow smaller reads in debugfs

[Shukun Tan]

Hi Dan & Zhou,

On 2020/5/28 20:37, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Originally this code rejected any read less than 256 bytes.  There
> is no need for this artificial limit.
> 
> Also I have changed the snprintf() functions to scnprintf().  The
> difference is that snprintf() returns the number of bytes which would
> have been copied if there were enough space and scnprintf() returns the
> number of bytes which were actually copied.  It doesn't matter here
> because the strings are very short so they can't go over 256 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c | 18 ++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> index a781c02251980..9c0c9f500d91d 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> @@ -1076,16 +1076,15 @@ static ssize_t qm_cmd_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
>  	if (*pos)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	if (count < QM_DBG_READ_LEN)
> -		return -ENOSPC;
> -

I think we should keep it, maybe you are right when using 'cat', but if you use 'read'
system call this may make the user read only part of the prompt. This may break our
original design. :)

Thanks,
Shukun

> -	len = snprintf(buf, QM_DBG_READ_LEN, "%s\n",
> +	len = scnprintf(buf, QM_DBG_READ_LEN, "%s\n",
>  		       "Please echo help to cmd to get help information");
>  
> +	len = min_t(size_t, len, count);
>  	if (copy_to_user(buffer, buf, len))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> -	return (*pos = len);
> +	*pos = len;
> +	return len;
>  }
>  
>  static void *qm_ctx_alloc(struct hisi_qm *qm, size_t ctx_size,
> @@ -2710,19 +2709,18 @@ static ssize_t qm_status_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer,
>  	if (*pos)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	if (count < QM_DBG_READ_LEN)
> -		return -ENOSPC;
> -
>  	val = atomic_read(&qm->status.flags);
> -	len = snprintf(buf, QM_DBG_READ_LEN, "%s\n", qm_s[val]);
> +	len = scnprintf(buf, QM_DBG_READ_LEN, "%s\n", qm_s[val]);
>  	if (!len)
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> +	len = min_t(size_t, len, count);
>  	cp_len = copy_to_user(buffer, buf, len);
>  	if (cp_len)
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> -	return (*pos = len);
> +	*pos = len;
> +	return len;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct file_operations qm_status_fops = {
>