Hi ..
I wrote the kernel module and I want to read regular file for get the context in that file to do something and I have a problem, How to read file from kernel module ??

Please help me for suggetion , I'm newbie.
Thanks you.

I know very little about programming kernel modules, but isn't it possible to just call open(2) and read(2). They are system calls, and as such in the kernel, after all.

it doesnt make sense to call open from the kernel because open returns a file descriptor which is specific to a process but the kernel isnt a process. eg every process has file descriptor STDOUT_FILENO which is 1, but they go to different places this can only work because they are in different processes, the kernel isnt a process and therefore it cant have file descriptors. (i dont think ive explained this very well if someone can explain better please do)

im sure its possible to concoct some method of opening a file from inside the kernel but i wouldnt reccommend it as it will most likely cause security problems/race conditions/etc...

my suggestion is to use the proc interface or run a user mode daemon to talk to your module.

If the function in your module is called from a system call, then any file descriptors will be in the context of the process that made the system call. For instance, if it is in your init function, then it will be in the context of the insmod process. As long as you read the file and close it before the function returns, you should be all right. You should probably make a module option to specify the file to read. What is the file? Config, data, etc.?

That file is data file such as content data

If it doesn't ever change, try converting the file to an array in a header. That way, it will be built right into the module itself. Almost all of the raw data in the kernel is done this way. It shouldn't be too difficult to create a program to convert a binary to a char array.