kernfs: sysfs: support custom llseek method for sysfs entries

As of now, seeking in sysfs files is handled by generic_file_llseek().
There are situations where one may want to customize seeking logic:

- Many sysfs entries are fixed files while generic_file_llseek() accepts
  past-the-end positions. Not only being useless by itself, this
  also means a bug in userspace code will trigger not at lseek(), but at
  some later point making debugging harder.
- generic_file_llseek() relies on f_mapping->host to get the file size
  which might not be correct for all sysfs entries.
  See commit 636b21b50152 ("PCI: Revoke mappings like devmem") as an example.

Implement llseek method to override this behavior at sysfs attribute
level. The method is optional, and if it is absent,
generic_file_llseek() is called to preserve backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Valentine Sinitsyn <valesini@yandex-team.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925084013.309399-1-valesini@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 2a36f3218b51..99aaa050ccb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ struct kernfs_ops {
 			 struct poll_table_struct *pt);
 
 	int (*mmap)(struct kernfs_open_file *of, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+	loff_t (*llseek)(struct kernfs_open_file *of, loff_t offset, int whence);
 };
 
 /*