History log of /linux-master/include/linux/seq_buf.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 6efe4d18 15-Feb-2024 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

seq_buf: Fix kernel documentation

There are plenty of issues with the kernel documentation here:
- misspelled word "sequence"
- different style of returned value descriptions
- missed Return sections
- unaligned style of ASCII / NUL-terminated / etc
- wrong function references

Fix all these.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215152506.598340-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 8a566f94 15-Feb-2024 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

seq_buf: Don't use "proxy" headers

Update header inclusions to follow IWYU (Include What You Use)
principle.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215142255.400264-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 7a8e9cdf 16-Jan-2024 Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>

seq_buf: Make DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() usable

Using the address operator on the array doesn't work:

./include/linux/seq_buf.h:27:27: error: initialization of ‘char *’
from incompatible pointer type ‘char (*)[128]’
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
27 | .buffer = &__ ## NAME ## _buffer, \
| ^

Apart from fixing that, we can improve DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() by using a
compound literal to define the buffer array without attaching a name
to it. This makes the macro a single statement, allowing constructs
such as:

static DECLARE_SEQ_BUF(my_seq_buf, MYSB_SIZE);

to work as intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240116-declare-seq-buf-fix-v1-1-915db4692f32@linux.ibm.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: dcc4e5728eea ("seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# dcc4e572 27-Oct-2023 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()

Solve two ergonomic issues with struct seq_buf;

1) Too much boilerplate is required to initialize:

struct seq_buf s;
char buf[32];

seq_buf_init(s, buf, sizeof(buf));

Instead, we can build this directly on the stack. Provide
DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() macro to do this:

DECLARE_SEQ_BUF(s, 32);

2) %NUL termination is fragile and requires 2 steps to get a valid
C String (and is a layering violation exposing the "internals" of
seq_buf):

seq_buf_terminate(s);
do_something(s->buffer);

Instead, we can just return s->buffer directly after terminating it in
the refactored seq_buf_terminate(), now known as seq_buf_str():

do_something(seq_buf_str(s));

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231027155634.make.260-kees@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231026194033.it.702-kees@kernel.org/

Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 845e31e1 20-Oct-2023 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

seq_buf: fix a misleading comment

The comment for seq_buf_has_overflowed() says that an overflow condition is
marked by len == size, but that's not what the code is testing. Make the
comment match reality.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pm19kp0m.fsf@meer.lwn.net

Fixes: 8cd709ae7658a ("tracing: Have seq_buf use full buffer")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# d0ed46b6 19-Oct-2023 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

tracing: Move readpos from seq_buf to trace_seq

To make seq_buf more lightweight as a string buf, move the readpos member
from seq_buf to its container, trace_seq. That puts the responsibility
of maintaining the readpos entirely in the tracing code. If some future
users want to package up the readpos with a seq_buf, we can define a
new struct then.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231020033545.2587554-2-willy@infradead.org

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 96928d90 15-Apr-2023 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper

Sometimes we use seq_buf to format a string buffer, which
we then pass to printk(). However, in certain situations
the seq_buf string buffer can get too big, exceeding the
PRINTKRB_RECORD_MAX bytes limit, and causing printk() to
truncate the string.

Add a new seq_buf helper. This helper prints the seq_buf
string buffer line by line, using \n as a delimiter,
rather than passing the whole string buffer to printk()
at once.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230415100110.1419872-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# f2616c77 17-Mar-2021 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

seq_buf: Add seq_buf_terminate() API

In the case that the seq_buf buffer needs to be printed directly, add a way
to make sure that the buffer is safe to read by forcing a nul terminating
character at the end of the string, or the last byte of the buffer if the
string has overflowed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# d9a9280a 26-Oct-2020 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init

Building with W=2 prints a number of warnings for one function that
has a pointer type mismatch:

linux/seq_buf.h: In function 'seq_buf_init':
linux/seq_buf.h:35:12: warning: pointer targets in assignment from 'unsigned char *' to 'char *' differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]

Change the type in the function prototype according to the type in
the structure.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026161108.3707783-1-arnd@kernel.org

Fixes: 9a7777935c34 ("tracing: Convert seq_buf fields to be like seq_file fields")
Reviewed-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 353cade3 07-Nov-2019 Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>

seq_buf: Add printing formatted hex dumps

Provided function is an analogue of print_hex_dump().

Implementing this function in seq_buf allows using for multiple
purposes (e.g. for tracing) and therefore prevents from code duplication
in every layer that uses seq_buf.

print_hex_dump() is an essential part of logging data to dmesg. Adding
similar capability for other purposes is beneficial to all users.

Example usage:
seq_buf_hex_dump(seq, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16, 4, buf,
ARRAY_SIZE(buf), true);
Example output:
00000000: 00000000 ffffff10 ffffff32 ffff3210 ........2....2..
00000010: ffff3210 83d00437 c0700000 00000000 .2..7.....p.....
00000020: 02010004 0000000f 0000000f 00004002 .............@..
00000030: 00000fff 00000000 ........

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1573130738-29390-1-git-send-email-piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 46385326 13-Feb-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

bitmap, cpumask, nodemask: remove dedicated formatting functions

Now that all bitmap formatting usages have been converted to
'%*pb[l]', the separate formatting functions are unnecessary. The
following functions are removed.

* bitmap_scn[list]printf()
* cpumask_scnprintf(), cpulist_scnprintf()
* [__]nodemask_scnprintf(), [__]nodelist_scnprintf()
* seq_bitmap[_list](), seq_cpumask[_list](), seq_nodemask[_list]()
* seq_buf_bitmask()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2448913e 03-Nov-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

seq-buf: Make seq_buf_bprintf() conditional on CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF

The function bstr_printf() from lib/vsprnintf.c is only available if
CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF is defined. This is due to the only user currently
being the tracing infrastructure, which needs to select this config
when tracing is configured. Until there is another user of the binary
printf formats, this will continue to be the case.

Since seq_buf.c is now lives in lib/ and is compiled even without
tracing, it must encompass its use of bstr_printf() which is used
by seq_buf_printf(). This too is only used by the tracing infrastructure
and is still encapsulated by the CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.969013383@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 01cb06a4 29-Oct-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Add seq_buf_get_buf() and seq_buf_commit() helper functions

Add two helper functions; seq_buf_get_buf() and seq_buf_commit() that
are used by seq_buf_path(). This makes the code similar to the
seq_file: seq_path() function, and will help to be able to consolidate
the functions between seq_file and trace_seq.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.644881406@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011412.977571447@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 8cd709ae 29-Oct-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Have seq_buf use full buffer

Currently seq_buf is full when all but one byte of the buffer is
filled. Change it so that the seq_buf is full when all of the
buffer is filled.

Some of the functions would fill the buffer completely and report
everything was fine. This was inconsistent with the max of size - 1.
Changing this to be max of size makes all functions consistent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.502133196@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011412.811957882@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# eeab9815 06-Nov-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

seq_buf: Create seq_buf_used() to find out how much was written

Add a helper function seq_buf_used() that replaces the SEQ_BUF_USED()
private macro to let callers have a method to know how much of the
seq_buf was written to.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011412.170377300@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011413.321654244@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 0736c033 29-Oct-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Add a seq_buf_clear() helper and clear len and readpos in init

Add a helper function seq_buf_clear() that resets the len and readpos
fields of a seq_buf. Currently it is only used in the seq_buf_init()
but will be used later when updating the seq_file code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.352309995@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 9a777793 29-Oct-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Convert seq_buf fields to be like seq_file fields

In facilitating the conversion of seq_file to use seq_buf,
have the seq_buf fields match the types used by seq_file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.195301024@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# dd23180a 29-Oct-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Convert seq_buf_path() to be like seq_path()

Rewrite seq_buf_path() like it is done in seq_path() and allow
it to accept any escape character instead of just "\n".

Making seq_buf_path() like seq_path() will help prevent problems
when converting seq_file to use the seq_buf logic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160222.048795666@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011412.338523371@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3a161d99 25-Jun-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Create seq_buf layer in trace_seq

Create a seq_buf layer that trace_seq sits on. The seq_buf will not
be limited to page size. This will allow other usages of seq_buf
instead of a hard set PAGE_SIZE one that trace_seq has.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141104160221.864997179@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114011412.170377300@goodmis.org

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>