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Subject[PATCH] module: Clarify documentation of module_param_call()
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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
against 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() but clarifying the
comment: 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 <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@gooogle.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
Luis, I note that include/linux/moduleparam.h isn't in the MAINTAINERS
file pattern. Perhaps you want to use include/linux/module*.h?
---
include/linux/moduleparam.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 962cd41a2cb5..d32450583182 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ struct kparam_array
= { __param_str_##name, THIS_MODULE, ops, \
VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } }

-/* Obsolete - use module_param_cb() */
+/* For repeated _set & _get usage use module_param_cb() */
#define module_param_call(name, _set, _get, arg, perm) \
static const struct kernel_param_ops __param_ops_##name = \
{ .flags = 0, .set = _set, .get = _get }; \
--
2.34.1
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