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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 53 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/hwmon.h | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst index c41eb6108103..e2975d5caf34 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ register/unregister functions:: void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev); + char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name); + + char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name); + hwmon_device_register_with_groups registers a hardware monitoring device. The first parameter of this function is a pointer to the parent device. The name parameter is a pointer to the hwmon device name. The registration @@ -95,6 +99,18 @@ All supported hwmon device registration functions only accept valid device names. Device names including invalid characters (whitespace, '*', or '-') will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory. +If the driver doesn't use a static device name (for example it uses +dev_name()), and therefore cannot make sure the name only contains valid +characters, hwmon_sanitize_name can be used. This convenience function +will duplicate the string and replace any invalid characters with an +underscore. It will allocate memory for the new string and it is the +responsibility of the caller to release the memory when the device is +removed. + +devm_hwmon_sanitize_name is the resource managed version of +hwmon_sanitize_name; the memory will be freed automatically on device +removal. + Using devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() -------------------------------------------- diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c index 989e2c8496dd..5915ccfdb7d9 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,59 @@ void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwmon_device_unregister); +static char *__hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *old_name) +{ + char *name, *p; + + if (dev) + name = devm_kstrdup(dev, old_name, GFP_KERNEL); + else + name = kstrdup(old_name, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + + for (p = name; *p; p++) + if (hwmon_is_bad_char(*p)) + *p = '_'; + + return name; +} + +/** + * hwmon_sanitize_name - Replaces invalid characters in a hwmon name + * @name: NUL-terminated name + * + * Allocates a new string where any invalid characters will be replaced + * by an underscore. It is the responsibility of the caller to release + * the memory. + * + * Returns newly allocated name, or ERR_PTR on error. + */ +char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name) +{ + return __hwmon_sanitize_name(NULL, name); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_sanitize_name); + +/** + * devm_hwmon_sanitize_name - resource managed hwmon_sanitize_name() + * @dev: device to allocate memory for + * @name: NUL-terminated name + * + * Allocates a new string where any invalid characters will be replaced + * by an underscore. + * + * Returns newly allocated name, or ERR_PTR on error. + */ +char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name) +{ + if (!dev) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + + return __hwmon_sanitize_name(dev, name); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwmon_sanitize_name); + static void __init hwmon_pci_quirks(void) { #if defined CONFIG_X86 && defined CONFIG_PCI diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h index eba380b76d15..4efaf06fd2b8 100644 --- a/include/linux/hwmon.h +++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h @@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev); int hwmon_notify_event(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type, u32 attr, int channel); +char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name); +char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name); + /** * hwmon_is_bad_char - Is the char invalid in a hwmon name * @ch: the char to be considered |