Wednesday, November 11, 2015

data transfer from kernel to user buffer using driver in linux

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

static ssize_t sample_char_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
int err=0;
char kbuf[32] = "Reading sample char device\n";

printk("sample_char_read size(%ld)\n", count);
err = copy_to_user((void *) buf, kbuf, strlen(kbuf));
if (err)
err = -EFAULT;
kbuf[32] = '\0';
return count;
}

static ssize_t sample_char_write(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
int err=0;
char kbuf[100];
printk("sample_char_write size(%ld)\n", count);
err = copy_from_user((void *) kbuf, buf, count);
if (err)
err = -EFAULT;
kbuf[count] = '\0';
printk("The data writen :\n");
printk("%s\n",kbuf);

return count;

}

int sample_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
printk("sample_char_open\n");
return 0;
}

int sample_char_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{

printk("sample_char_release\n");
return 0;
}

static struct file_operations sample_char_fops = {
       read: sample_char_read,
       write: sample_char_write,
       open: sample_char_open,
       release: sample_char_release,
};

int major_no;

int init_module(void)
{
printk("\nLoading the sample char device driver 2\n");

major_no = register_chrdev(0, "sample_char", &sample_char_fops);
printk("major no = %d\n",major_no);
return 0;
}

void cleanup_module(void)
{
unregister_chrdev(major_no,"sample_char");
printk("\nUnloading the sample char device driver 2\n");

}

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