Re: writing from kernel

[Olaf Dietsche]

"anil  vijarnia" <[e-mail]> writes:

> can anyone tell me how to write into i file from kernel space.
> i tried sys_open,sys_write functions bbbbbut they don't work
>  from
> my module.

As others already pointed out, it's not always a good idea to do this
from kernel space. However, if you still want to do it, see snippet
below. If you want to write, you have to copy kernel_read() from
fs/exec.c and modify it for writing.

Regards, Olaf.

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#include <linux/fs.h>

struct file *filp;
unsigned long offset = 0;
char buf[1024];
int n;

filp = filp_open("/path/to/some/file", O_RDONLY, 0);
if (!filp || IS_ERR(filp)) {
   /* do some error handling */
}

n = kernel_read(filp, offset, buf, sizeof(buf));
if (n != sizeof(buf)) {
   /* do some checking */
}

filp_close(filp, 0);
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