Re: targets of function pointer invocations

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Firstname Lastname wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The lines 522-523 in function do_acct_process in file kernel/acct.c in version 2.6.26.3 are:
>>
>>  file->f_op->write(file, (char *)&ac,sizeof(acct_t), &file->f_pos);
>>
>> What are the full set of targets of this function pointer invocation and how can one be sure, by examining the code, that this is in fact the complete set?
>>     
>
> If I understand your question, you want to know what are the ->write()
> function parameters and how does one determine them?
>
> 'file' is struct file, found in include/linux/fs.h.
> 'f_op' is struct file_operations, in the same file.
> 'write' is defined in struct file_operations as:
>
> 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
>
> 4 typed parameters, returning ssize_t.
>
> Is that what you meant?
>   

Actually, I think OP is asking what's the complete set of functions
->write can point to.  You can look for all the in-tree assignments to
f_ops (or all the struct file_ops) to get the in-kernel estimate.  But
any out of tree module could also install file_ops.write, so you can't
be exhaustive.

    J