From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>, Nosh Minwalla <nosh@google.com>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous inodes
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:30:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez1Tdm+iz3-H7OZ2v9-zmWg-73zwEsupDxmnEymZM_C3DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOZuet4VM-P_xm9R7cJO2_f60eUcqt5wHG8+khJedhctfEEhw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:16 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:39 AM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 9:16 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
> > > Add functions forwarding from the old names to the new ones so we
> > > don't need to change any callers.
> >
> > This patch does more than the commit message says; it also refactors
> > the body of the function. (I would've moved that refactoring over into
> > patch 2, but I guess this works, too.)
> >
> > [...]
> > > -struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
> > > - const struct file_operations *fops,
> > > - void *priv, int flags)
> > > +struct file *anon_inode_getfile2(const char *name,
> > > + const struct file_operations *fops,
> > > + void *priv, int flags, int anon_inode_flags)
> >
> > (AFAIK, normal kernel style is to slap a "__" prefix in front of the
> > function name instead of appending a digit, but I guess it doesn't
> > really matter.)
>
> I thought prefixing "_" was for signaling "this is an implementation
> detail and you probably don't want to call it unless you know what
> you're doing", not "here's a new version that does a new thing".
Ah, I guess that might be true.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-14 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-12 19:15 [PATCH 0/7] Harden userfaultfd Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous inodes Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 4:26 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 15:38 ` Jann Horn
2019-10-14 18:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 18:30 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2019-10-15 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add a concept of a "secure" anonymous file Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-15 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] Add a UFFD_SECURE flag to the userfaultfd API Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 0:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-13 1:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 1:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 16:04 ` Jann Horn
2019-10-23 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 19:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 21:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 22:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 20:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-24 0:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-24 9:02 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-24 15:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-25 20:12 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-22 21:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-23 4:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 7:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-10-23 12:43 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-23 17:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] Teach SELinux about a new userfaultfd class Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 0:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-13 0:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] Let userfaultfd opt out of handling kernel-mode faults Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] Allow users to require UFFD_SECURE Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add a new sysctl for limiting userfaultfd to user mode faults Daniel Colascione
2019-10-16 0:02 ` [PATCH 0/7] Harden userfaultfd James Morris
2019-11-15 15:09 ` Stephen Smalley
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